Comedy, Politics and Social Difference
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Köp båda 2 för 939 kr'This is a refreshingly intelligent and engaging book, offering a wide range of critical, sociological and theoretical approaches to recent trends in television comedy. Wragg's collection is at once very contemporary in its feel and aware of current comedy's cultural heritage; so Seinfeld, is considered alongside I Love Lucy, M*A*S*H and Cheers.' - Sight&Sound
Stephen Wagg is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport Studies at Roehampton Institute, London. His previous books include Come on Down? and The Social Faces of Humour.
INTRODUCTION 1 AT EASE, CORPORAL Social class and the situation comedy in British television, from the 1950s to the 1990s 2 THE LANCASHIRE SHAMAN Frank Randle and Mancunian Films 3 BUTTERFLIES AND CAUSTIC ASIDES Housewives, comedy and the feminist movement 4 TARTS, TAMPONS AND TYRANTS Women and representation in British comedy 5 CERTAIN LIBERTIES HAVE BEEN TAKEN WITH CLEOPATRA Female performance in the Carry On films 6 PUNCHING YOUR WEIGHT Conversations with Jo Brand 7 THE STRAIGHT MEN OF COMEDY 8 SUITS AND SEQUINS Lesbian comedians in Britain and the US in the 1990s 9 YEAH, AND I USED TO BE A HUNCHBACK Immigrants, humour and the Marx Brothers 10 WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME Open convictions and closed contexts in the American situation comedy 11 CRINGE AND STRUT Comedy and national identity in post-war Australia 12 SERIOUS TING The black comedy circuit in England 13 THEY ALREADY GOT A COMEDIAN FOR GOVERNOR Comedians and politics in the United States and Great Britain 14 VIZ Gender, class and taboo 15 HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE WHITE MIDDLE[1]CLASS HETEROSEXUAL FATHER-IN-LAW?