TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holm,Nicholas
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Humour as Politics: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy 
T2  - Palgrave Studies in Comedy
SN  - 9783319509501
AV  - PN1993-1999 
U1  - 791.4301 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Cultural policy
KW  - Film genres
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Comedy
KW  - Film Theory
KW  - Cultural Policy and Politics
KW  - Genre
KW  - Audio-Visual Culture
KW  - Comedy Studies
N1  - 1. Introduction: Living in Comic Times -- 2. Dissent in Jest: Humour in the Liberal Moment -- 3. Telling Jokes to Power: The (A)Political Work of Humour -- 4. Humour without Anaesthetic: The Discomfort of Reality Comedy -- 5. Humour without Pity: The Scandal of Provocative Humour -- 6. Humour without Reason: The Nonsense of Absurd Humour -- 7. All That is Solid Collapses into Giggles: Examining the Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Humour -- 8. Conclusion: The Last Laugh.; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки
N2  - This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and Chappelle’s Show, Holm explores how humour has become a central site of cultural politics in the twenty-first century. More than just a form of entertainment, humour has come to play a central role in the contemporary media environment, shaping how we understand ideas of freedom, empathy, social boundaries and even logic. Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models of laughter as a form of dissent and instead argues for a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50950-1
ER  -