Politics and Comedy: Critical Encounters – serie
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Political Satire, Postmodern Reality, and the Trump Presidency
Who Are We Laughing At?
Häftad, 2021
556 kr
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This book attempts to grasp the recent paradigm shift in American politics through the lens of satire. It connects changes in the political and cultural landscape to corresponding shifts in the structure and organization of the media, in order to shed light on the evolution of political satire on …
Dubious Pundits
Presidential Politics, Late-Night Comedy, and the Public Sphere
Häftad, 2023
458 kr
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Over the last decades of the 20th century, and into the 21st, humor on late-night TV became a more influential part of the United States’ political conversations. Not only did viewers talk about what the shows were saying, but serious journalists in newspapers and television news did as well. This …
Joke Is on Us
Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times
Inbunden, 2018
1556 kr
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This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet …
Taking Comedy Seriously
Stand-Up's Dissident Potential in Mass Culture
Inbunden, 2018
1204 kr
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This book explores stand-up comedy as a relevant sociological phenomenon from a contemporary perspective, as both a symptom of neoliberal capitalism and the locus specificus of socio-political critique in the era of Empire. It draws a feasible connection between the conspicuous rise in the art …
Politicians at Night
Interaction and Discourse on the Entertainment-Political Interview
Av Gonen Dori-Hacohen, Eean Grimshaw m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1204 kr
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Politicians at Night: Interaction and Discourse on the Entertainment-Political Interview studies the exchanges between presidential candidates and talk show hosts on broadcast late-night shows in the United States. Gonen Dori-Hacohen; Eean Grimshaw and Menno H. Reijven use various language and …
