Humour as Politics
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Humour as Politics

The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy

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Humour as Politics

The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy

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About This Book

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
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319509501
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Chapter 1 Introduction: Living in Comic Times
  5. Chapter 2 Dissent in Jest: Humour in the Liberal Moment
  6. Chapter 3 Telling Jokes to Power: The (A)Political Work of Humour
  7. Chapter 4 Humour Without Anaesthetic:The Discomfort of Reality Comedy
  8. Chapter 5 Humour Without Pity: The Scandal of Provocative Humour
  9. Chapter 6 Humour Without Reason: The Nonsense of Absurd Humour
  10. Chapter 7 All that is Solid Collapses into Giggles: Examining the Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Humour
  11. Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Last Laugh
  12. Index