The ironic state : British comedy and the everyday politics of globalization / James Brassett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brassett, James, author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comedy--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Comedy.

Satire, English.

Comedy--Political aspects.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Front Cover

The Ironic State: British Comedy and the Everyday Politics of Globalization

Copyright information

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Comedy and the Politics of (Global) Resistance

1 Comedy and politics: two approaches

The instrumental approach

The critical approach

2 The approach of this book

3 Outline

1 Everyday Comic Resistance in Global Context

Introduction

1 The everyday turn in global politics

Ambiguities of everyday resistance

2 Towards a performative politics of comic resistance

3 Subversion and failure in the work of Armando Iannucci

The market life of failure

Conclusion: The productivity of comic resistance?

2 The Satire Boom: Imperial Decline and the Rise of the Everyday Elite

1 Satirical resistance: empire, class and the self

2 Ambiguities of the satire boom

3 Irony: a new language of global politics

Everyday class politics

Conclusion

3 Alternative Comedy and Resistance to 'Thatcher's Britain'

1 The right on politics of alternative comedy

2 Alexei Sayle: resistance and recuperation

Conclusion

4 Irony and the Liminality of Resistance

Introduction: The anti-politics of irony?

1 Irony and the rise of new satire

Chris Morris

2 Ambiguities of irony: Ali G and Ricky Gervais

Ali G

The Office

3 Towards a politics of liminality

Conclusion: Irony and responsibility

5 Austerity and the Rise of Radical Comedy

1 Everyday politics of 'the system'

Charlie Brooker

2 Comedy as political theory: anti-capitalist, radical democracy

Russell Brand

Stewart Lee

3 Satirical literacy

6 Brexit, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Single Market

Introduction: Politicizing comedy

1 Brexit and the division of British comedy

The comedy politician

The comedy establishment

2 Embracing the culture wars?

3 A changing consensus?

7 The Globalization of Comic Resistance?

1 The British are coming (again)

2 The state of British comedy

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781529208481

1529208483

9781529208474

1529208475

Publisher Number:

40030385821

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