All joking aside [electronic resource] : American humor and its discontents / Rebecca Krefting
- Author:
- Krefting, Rebecca, 1978-
- Published:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]
- Physical Description:
- xi, 346 pages ; 23 cm
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- serialssolutions.com
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- License restrictions may limit access.
- 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.
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- ISBN:
- 9781421414294 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1421414295 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421414300 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1421414309 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781421414317 (electronic)
1421414317 (electronic) - Note:
- Includes filmographies and discographies.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.
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