All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / Rebecca Krefting.

"In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefs--they challenge myths about how fair and democratic our s...

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Main Author: Krefting, Rebecca, 1978-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
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