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Comedy and the Politics of Representation = Mocking the Weak /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Comedy and the Politics of Representation/ edited by Helen Davies, Sarah Ilott.
Reminder of title:	Mocking the Weak /
other author:	Davies, Helen.
Description:	XIII, 262 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Popular Culture. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90506-8
ISBN:	9783319905068

Comedy and the Politics of Representation = Mocking the Weak /
Comedy and the Politics of RepresentationMocking the Weak /[electronic resource] :edited by Helen Davies, Sarah Ilott. - 1st ed. 2018. - XIII, 262 p.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Comedy. - Palgrave Studies in Comedy.

1. Introduction: Mocking the Weak? Contexts, Theories, Politcs, Helen Davies and Sarah Ilott -- 2. Taking Liberties? Free Speech, Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Satire, Anshuman A. Mondal -- 3. Openness, Otherness, and Expertise: Uncertainty and Trust in Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, Rob Hawkes -- 4. British Multiculturalism, Romantic Comedy, and the Lie of Social Unification, Sarah Ilott -- 5. Parodying Racial Passing in Chappelle’s Show and Key & Peele, Janine Bradbury -- 6. Blackness and Banal Whiteness: Abjection and Identity in the Italian Christmas Comedy, Alan O’Leary -- 7. Sexual and National Difference in the high-speed, popular surrealism of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau’s double acts, 1929-1936, Neil Washbourne -- 8. From Terry and June to Terry and Julian: June Whitfield and the British Suburban Sitcom, Rosie White -- 9. Saintly Cretins and Ugly Buglys: Laughing at Victorian Disability in Hunderby, Helen Davies -- 10. Standing Up to False Binaries in Humour and Autism: A Dialogue, Kate Fox -- 11. Comedy and the Representation of the British Working Class from On the Buses to This is England ’90, Tracy Casling -- 12. Theorising Post-Socialist Sitcom: Imported Form, Vernacular Humour and Taste Boundaries on the Global Periphery, Dejan Jontes and Andreja Trdina -- 13. Smile, Hitler? Nazism and Comedy in Popular Culture, Jason Lee -- 14. POTUS Stand-up: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Sheryl Tuttle Ross.

This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which “humorous” constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture. Should there be limits to free speech when humour is aimed at marginalised social groups? What are the limits of free speech when comedy pokes fun at those who hold social power? Can taboo joking be used towards politically progressive ends? Can stereotypes be mocked through their re-invocation? Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak breaks new theoretical ground by demonstrating how the way people are represented mediates the triadic relationship set up in comedy between teller, audience and butt of the joke. By bringing together a selection of essays from international scholars, this study unpacks and examines the dynamic role that humour plays in making and remaking identity and power relations in culture and society.

ISBN: 9783319905068

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-90506-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1115695
Popular Culture.

LC Class. No.: HM621-656

Dewey Class. No.: 306

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