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All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / Rebecca Krefting.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krefting, Rebecca, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stand-up comedy--United States.
- Stand-up comedy.
- Comedy--History and criticism.
- Comedy.
- Participatory theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Readers will be delighted by the broad array of comic talent spotlighted in this book, and for those interested in comedy with substance, it will offer an alternative punchline.
- Contents:
- Introduction: American humor and its discontents
- Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor
- Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor
- Laughing into the new millennium
- When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption
- Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd'
- Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes
- Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy
- Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-1431-7
- OCLC:
- 884280109
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