The funniest pages : international perspectives on humor in journalism / edited by David Swick and Richard Lance Keeble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esther F. Kantrowitz & Lionel Kantrowitz Collection Endowed Fund.

Swick, David, editor.

Keeble, Richard, 1948- editor.

Series:

Mass communication and journalism (Peter Lang Publishing) ; v. 20.

Mass communication and journalism ; vol. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political satire.

Wit and humor in journalism.

Political satire--History and criticism.

Reportage literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 271 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2016]

Summary:

Charles Dickens, celebrated novelist and journalist, believed that his greatest ability as a writer was to make people laugh. Yet, to date, humor has been strangely marginalized in journalism, communication and media studies. This book draws together the work of seventeen writers to show that, starting in the 1640s during the English Civil War, and continuing through to the present time, humor has indeed been an important ingredient of journalism. Countries studied include Australia, Britain, Canada, Chile and the United States. The book is divided into four sections which look at humor in online journalism.

Contents:

Introduction: Journalism

so often funnier than fiction

News mockery in the English civil war and interregnum press / Nicholas Brownlees

`Written with powers truly comick': Joseph Addison, Richard Steele and the birth of social and political satire / Dean Jobb

Travel writing and humor: from Dickens and Twain to the present day / Ben Stubbs

Sifting comic wheat from western chaff: Alex E. Sweet, John Armoy Knox, and the humor of the American west / Mary M. Cronin

Howling mad: Mad magazine, Allen Ginsberg, and the culture wars of the 1950s / Mark J. Noonan

Comedy in tragedy: humor in the literary journalism of James Cameron / David Swick

Words! wisdom! gibberish!: verbal irony in 'Fear and loathing: on the campaign trail '72' / Hendrik Michael

'The clinic': satirizing and interrogating power in post-Pinochet Chile / Antonio Castillo

Deadly funny: how John Diamond used humor to tackle the taboo subjects of cancer and dying / Carolyn Rickett

`Common sense dancing': Clive James's invention of the television column as a comic genre / James Waller-Davies

John Clarke and the power of satire in journalism / Matthew Ricketson

A sporting chance: fun and failure

both on and off the field / Rob Steen

Bowling them over and over with wit: forms and functions of humor in live text cricket coverage / Dermot Heaney

Harmer, humor and 'The hoopla': in the vanguard of Australian female comedy / Sue Joseph

Speaking truth to power in 140 characters or less: political satire, civic engagement and journalism / Asif Hameed

Twitter and the revitalization of black humor in journalism / Blake Lambert

How 'Spy', the iconic satirical magazine of the 1980s, invented contemporary snark, and how internet journalism has misappropriated it / Kevin M. Lerner

Afterword: putting fun into the curriculum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Esther F. Kantrowitz & Lionel Kantrowitz Collection Endowed Fund.

ISBN:

9781433130991

1433130998

OCLC:

933420489

Publisher Number:

99978860456

40026038397