Humor in America – serie
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Caricature and National Character
The United States at War
Inbunden, 2021
1318 kr
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According to the popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Chris Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to provide new, unique insights into American cultural identity.Tracing the comic representation of …
Caricature and National Character
The United States at War
Häftad, 2023
466 kr
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According to the popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Chris Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to provide new, unique insights into American cultural identity.Tracing the comic representation of …
Satire as the Comic Public Sphere
Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement
Inbunden, 2021
1260 kr
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Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel—these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and current events receive some of the highest ratings on television. In this book, James E. Caron examines these and other satirists through the lenses of …
Satire as the Comic Public Sphere
Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement
Häftad, 2024
303 kr
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Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel—these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and current events receive some of the highest ratings on television. In this book, James E. Caron examines these and other satirists through the lenses of …
Laughable Empire
The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840–1890
Inbunden, 2023
1239 kr
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In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., “other”) to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this …
Laughable Empire
The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840–1890
Häftad, 2023
476 kr
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In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., “other”) to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this …
New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2023
1581 kr
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Seen as too smart, too sassy, too sexy, and too strident, female humorists have been resisted and overlooked. New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century corrects this tendency, focusing on the foremothers of women’s humor in modern America, who used satire, irony, and wit as indirect forms of …
New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2023
401 kr
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Seen as too smart, too sassy, too sexy, and too strident, female humorists have been resisted and overlooked. New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century corrects this tendency, focusing on the foremothers of women’s humor in modern America, who used satire, irony, and wit as indirect forms of …
Humor and Irony in Italian American Culture
Inbunden, 2027
1598 kr
Kommande
Humor and Irony in Italian American Culture reveals a rich but understudied comedic tradition: the ways US Americans of Italian descent have used humor to preserve their heritage, project their fears, and negotiate their relationship to mainstream American culture.The book historicizes, documents, …
