The Joke Is on Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Joke Is on Us write by Julie A. Webber. This book was released on 2018-12-11. The Joke Is on Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet categories such as comedy, horror, drama and news and entertainment have become blurred so as to be indistinguishable. The classic modern paradigm of comedy/tragedy no longer holds, if it ever did. Moreover, as politics becomes more economic and less moral or normative under neoliberalism, we are able to see new resistance to comedic genres that support neoliberal strategies to hide racial and gender injustice such as unlaughter, ambiguity, and anti-comedy. There is also an increasing interest with comedy as a form of entertainment on the political right following both Brexit in the UK and the election of Trump in the U.S. Several essays confront this conservative comedy and place it in context of the larger humor history of these debates over free speech and political correctness. For comedians too, entry into popular media now follows the familiar neoliberal script of the celebration of self-help with the increasing admonishment of those who fail to win in market terms. Laughter plays an important role in shaming and valorizing (often at the same time!) the precarious subject in the aftermath of global recession. Doubling down on austerity, self-help policies and equivocation in the face of extremist challenges (right and left), politics foils the critical comedian’s attempt to satirize and parody its object. Characterized by ambiguity, mixed genre and the increasing use of anti-humor, political comedy mirrors the social and political world it mocks, parodies and celebrates often with lackluster results suggesting that the joke might be on us, as audiences.
Only a Joke Can Save Us
Only a Joke Can Save Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Only a Joke Can Save Us write by Todd McGowan. This book was released on 2017-09-15. Only a Joke Can Save Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humor in philosophy, Todd McGowan locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of the opposing concepts lack and excess. After reviewing the treatment of comedy in the work of philosophers as varied as Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, McGowan, working in a psychoanalytic framework, demonstrates that comedy results from the deployment of lack and excess, whether in contrast, juxtaposition, or interplay. Illustrating the power and flexibility of this framework with analyses of films ranging from Buster Keaton and Marx Brothers classics to Dr. Strangelove and Groundhog Day, McGowan shows how humor can reveal gaps in being and gaps in social order. Scholarly yet lively and readable, Only a Joke Can Save Us is a groundbreaking examination of the enigmatic yet endlessly fascinating experience of humor and comedy.
The JOKE
The JOKE - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The JOKE write by Milan Kundera. This book was released on 1993-02-26. The JOKE available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence. The present edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of The Joke. For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.
Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall
Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall write by Gordon Korman. This book was released on 2000-09-01. Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just as the Headmaster of Macdonald Hall is on the verge of retirement, a wave of practical jokes hits the school, and roommates Bruno and Boots become prime suspects.
The Joke's on Us
The Joke's on Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Joke's on Us write by Rubye H. Powers. This book was released on 1967. The Joke's on Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
