A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America - Couverture souple

 
9781617038235: A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America
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ISBN 10 : 1617038237 ISBN 13 : 9781617038235
Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2013

Synopsis

A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humor and irony on both media discourse and tangible political reality. Furthermore, it demonstrates that laughter is simultaneously an avenue through which social issues are deferred or obfuscated, a way in which neoliberal or neoconservative rhetoric is challenged, and a means of forming alternative political ideologies.

The volume's contributors cover a broad range of media productions, including news parodies (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Onion), TV roundtable shows (Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher), comic strips and cartoons (Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks, Jeff Danzinger's editorial cartoons), television drama (Rescue Me), animated satire (South Park), graphic novels (Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers), documentary (Fahrenheit 9/11), and other productions.

Along with examining the rhetorical methods and aesthetic techniques of these productions, the essays place each in specific political and journalistic contexts, showing how corporations, news outlets, and political institutions responded to-and sometimes co-opted-these forms of humor.

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À propos des auteurs

Ted Gournelos is assistant professor of critical media and cultural studies at Rollins College and author of Popular Culture and the Future of Politics: Cultural Studies and the Tao of "South Park."

Viveca S. Greene is visiting assistant professor of cultural studies at Hampshire College. Her work has appeared in The Nation, In Media Res, and We the Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy.

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Éditeur
University Press of Mississippi
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1617038237
ISBN 13 
9781617038235
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
290
Éditeur
Gournelos Ted
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781617030062: A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1617030066 ISBN 13 :  9781617030062
Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2011
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