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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783319509495
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-319-50949-5
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 23.10.2017
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2017
- Serie: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 4098 g
- Seiten: 223
- Format (B x H x T): 153 x 216 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt