The Politics of Humour : Laughter, Inclusion and Exclusion in the Twentieth Century / Martina Kessel, Patrick Merziger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kessel, Martina, author.

Contributor:

Merziger, Patrick.

Series:

German and European studies.

German and European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political satire--History and criticism.

Political satire.

European wit and humor--History and criticism.

European wit and humor.

American wit and humor--History and criticism.

American wit and humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Introduction. Landscapes of Humour: The History and Politics of the Comical in the Twentieth Century / Martina Kessel

1 When Are Jewish Jokes No Longer Funny? Ethnic Humour in Imperial and Republican Berlin / Peter Jelavich

2 Creole Cartoons / Mark Winokur

3 Talking War, Debating Unity: Order, Conflict, and Exclusion in 'German Humour' in the First World War / Martina Kessel

4 Producing a Cheerful Public: Light Radio Entertainment during National Socialism / Monika Pater

5 Humour in the Volksgemeinschaft : The Disappearance of Destructive Satire in National Socialist Germany / Patrick Merziger

6 Laughing to Keep from Dying: Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show / Vincent Brook

7 Ethnic Humour and Ethnic Politics in the Netherlands: The Rules and Attraction of Clandestine Humour / Giselinde Kuipers

8 'The Tongues of Mocking Wenches': Humour and Gender in Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction / Eileen Gillooly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-9513-7

1-4426-9512-9

OCLC:

794619674