All joking aside : American humor and its discontents
Comedy Participatory theater Stand-up comedy PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General sähkökirjat
Johns Hopkins University Press
2014
EISBN 9781421414317
Introduction: American humor and its discontents.
Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor.
Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor.
Laughing into the new millennium.
When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption.
Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd'.
Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes.
Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy.
Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh.
Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor.
Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor.
Laughing into the new millennium.
When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption.
Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd'.
Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes.
Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy.
Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh.
