All joking aside : American humor and its discontents

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.
Subjects:
Stand-up comedy > United States.
Comedy > History and criticism.
Participatory theater.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Comedy
Participatory theater
Stand-up comedy
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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