Humour as Politics : The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy EPUB
by Nicholas Holm
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Comedy series
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This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and Chappelle's Show, Holm explores how humour has become a central site of cultural politics in the twenty-first century. More than just a form of entertainment, humour has come to play a central role in the contemporary media environment, shaping how we understand ideas of freedom, empathy, social boundaries and even logic. Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models of laughter as a form of dissent and instead argues for a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment.
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- Publisher:Springer International Publishing
- Publication Date:10/10/2017
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing
- Publication Date:10/10/2017
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- ISBN:9783319509501
