Humour as Politics

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The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy, Palgrave Studies in Comedy

ISBN: 3319845292
ISBN 13: 9783319845296
Autor: Holm, Nicholas
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 223 S., 12 farbige Illustr., 223 p. 12 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.08.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and Chappelle’s Show, Holm explores how humour has become a central site of cultural politics in the twenty-first century. More than just a form of entertainment, humour has come to play a central role in the contemporary media environment, shaping how we understand ideas of freedom, empathy, social boundaries and even logic. Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models of laughter as a form of dissent and instead argues for a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment.

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Beschreibung

Presents a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment Revisits existing humour texts in order to rethink both the political limitations and possibilities of humour as a political mode in the twenty-first century Brings together concerns of form and aesthetics with questions of power in a manner that not only reassesses the cultural work of humour, but also articulates a new account of the political possibilities of popular aesthetics more broadly

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Holm is a lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University, New Zealand. He has written widely on the politics and aesthetics of popular culture, in particular contemporary humour. He is author of Advertising and Society: A Critical Introduction (2016).

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