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: 9783319845296
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-319-84529-6
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 23.08.2018
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
- Serie: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 311 g
- Seiten: 223
- Format (B x H x T): 148 x 210 x 13 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt