Comedy and the politics of representation : mocking the weak / edited by Helen Davies and Sarah Ilot...
Comedy and the politics of representation : mocking the weak / edited by Helen Davies and Sarah Ilot...
Comedy and the politics of representation : mocking the weak / edited by Helen Davies and Sarah Ilott.
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Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave macmillan, 2018.
Call Numbers
G 2019/2443
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 262 pages ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Mocking the Weak? Contexts, Theories, Politics; References; Chapter 2: Taking Liberties? Free Speech, Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Satire; Satire and Liberal Free Speech Theory; The Risks of Satire in a Global...
Chapter 5: Parodying Racial Passing in Chappelle's Show and Key & Peele"The Niggar Family" (2004); "Das Negros" (2012); Post-Black/Post-Soul Identities; References; Chapter 6: Blackness and Banal Whiteness: Abjection and Identity in the Italian Christmas Comedy; The Homosocial Motor; White Mischief;...
Representation of Women in Handley and Frankau's Double Act PerformancesRepresentation of Foreign People and Places in the Universe of Handley and Frankau; References; Chapter 8: From Terry and June to Terry and Julian: June Whitfield and the British Suburban Sitcom; References; Chapter 9: Saintly C...
The last laugh: White House Correspondents' Dinner as propaganda and responsible for the rise of Trump?White House Correspondents' Dinner as an Instance of Reconciled Laughter; References; Index
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Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave macmillan, 2018.
Date Published
2018.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture. Should there be limits to free speech when humour is aimed at marginalis...
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Full title
Comedy and the politics of representation : mocking the weak / edited by Helen Davies and Sarah Ilott.
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General note
Palgrave studies in comedy
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018.
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Call Numbers
G 2019/2443
Record Identifier
74VKVxpNor3g
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVxpNor3g
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ISBN
9783319905051
3319905058
DDC
792.76
MMS ID
991024244715302626
