Comedy and the Politics of Representation

Comedy and the Politics of Representation

Mocking the Weak

Davies, Helen; Ilott, Sarah

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

262

Dura

Inglês

9783319905051

15 a 20 dias

488

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1. Introduction: Mocking the Weak? Contexts, Theories, Politcs, Helen Davies and Sarah Ilott.- 2. Taking Liberties? Free Speech, Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Satire, Anshuman A. Mondal.- 3. Openness, Otherness, and Expertise: Uncertainty and Trust in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Rob Hawkes.- 4. British Multiculturalism, Romantic Comedy, and the Lie of Social Unification, Sarah Ilott.- 5. Parodying Racial Passing in Chappelle's Show and Key & Peele, Janine Bradbury.- 6. Blackness and Banal Whiteness: Abjection and Identity in the Italian Christmas Comedy, Alan O'Leary.- 7. Sexual and National Difference in the high-speed, popular surrealism of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau's double acts, 1929-1936, Neil Washbourne.- 8. From Terry and June to Terry and Julian: June Whitfield and the British Suburban Sitcom, Rosie White.- 9. Saintly Cretins and Ugly Buglys: Laughing at Victorian Disability in Hunderby, Helen Davies.- 10. Standing Up to False Binaries in Humour and Autism: A Dialogue, Kate Fox.- 11. Comedy and the Representation of the British Working Class from On the Buses to This is England '90, Tracy Casling.- 12. Theorising Post-Socialist Sitcom: Imported Form, Vernacular Humour and Taste Boundaries on the Global Periphery, Dejan Jontes and Andreja Trdina.- 13. Smile, Hitler? Nazism and Comedy in Popular Culture, Jason Lee.- 14. POTUS Stand-up: The White House Correspondents' Dinner, Sheryl Tuttle Ross.
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comedy;gender;sexuality;ethnicity;disability;stand-up;free speech;class;TV;radio;film;disability studies