Multicultural British Screen Comedy: Race, Racism and Antiracism - Couverture rigide

Ilott, Sarah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3032241243 ISBN 13 : 9783032241245

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2026

Synopsis

This book traces the shifting politics of race in contemporary Britain through analysis of screen comedy that has worked to parrot, cloak or confront racist discourse. Moving from 1950s minstrelsy through to contemporary streaming-era content, Ilott demonstrates how race is made and unmade through screen comedy’s engagements with the tacit (and often racist) premises of British multicultural discourse. Chapters on the romcom, sitcom and police comedy read selected films and TV shows as counter-narratives on British multiculturalism, intervening in popular discourse that constructs interracial romance as spelling hope for the future, the Black neighbour as inherently threatening, or racially minoritised communities as disproportionately criminal. Drawing on decolonial, critical race and cultural studies perspectives, the study reimagines humour theory as a vehicle for interpreting the affective, political and epistemological significance of comedy to shape processes of racialisation and national identity construction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Ilott is a Senior Lecturer in English and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She co-leads the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies at MMU and the comedy and gender research network Mixed Bill.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3032241243
• ISBN 13: 9783032241245
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 361
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