Alfred L. Martin, Felicia D. Henderson, Anshare Antoine, Gerald R. Butters, Ellen Cleghorne, Kelly Cole, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Ken Feil, Lisa Guerrero, Timothy Havens...
This book tells the story of how five comedic pioneersEddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend, and Arsenio Halljoined forces to revolutionize American popular culture. Known as Hollywoods Black Pack, they shattered Hollyw...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978838147)
This book tells the story of how five comedic pioneersEddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend, and Arsenio Halljoined forces to revolutionize American popular culture. Known as Hollywoods Black Pack, they shattered Hollyw...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503642621)
In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how weve made sense of the technologys sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From the first Broadway play to include a computer in t...Daugiau...
In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how weve made sense of the technologys sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From the first Broadway play to include a computer in...Daugiau...
Humour in Times of Confrontation: 1901 to the Present examines the various and surprising ways in which humour has been powerfully employed, through a wider range of media than possible at any other time in history, as a response to conflic...Daugiau...
Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literatures rich tradition, taking various forms from the coarse and obscene to the subtle and refined.Humour in Iran is a close and comprehensive study of satire and humo...Daugiau...
The golden age of Jewish humour flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, enjoyed by Jews and non-Jews alike, but its twilight years are now in sight. Telling jokes has the potential to reaffirm community once religion, p...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Mar-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520419278)
The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why Chinas entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called histories of laughter...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271095059)
In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., other) to American re...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271095721)
Seen as too smart, too sassy, too sexy, and too strident, female humorists have been resisted and overlooked. New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century corrects this tendency, focusing on the foremothers of womens humor in modern America, who u...Daugiau...
How humor helped white men cast the United States as a nation in which only they were entitled to citizenship.A joke is never just a jokenot even in the eighteenth century. In American Laughter, American Fury, Eran A. Zelnik...Daugiau...
Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 years. This vibrant study offers a compelling analyses of comedy as a mode, form, and genre. It is an engaging read for students and scholars of comparat...Daugiau...
Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture: From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 years. James V. Morrison discusses works including those of Aristophanes and Plautus, Shakespeare and Moliere, and mode...Daugiau...
The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor....Daugiau...
Humor and Masculinity in U.S. Fiction offers a pragmatic and theoretically informed model for analyzing how humor and gender intersect in key U.S. texts, bringing much needed attention to the complex ways that humor can support and/or subvert reduct...Daugiau...
In this new anthology of his columns for The Believer, Nick Hornby delves into the latest escapades from his reading life. Spanning the magazines Las Vegas era, these consistently hilarious dispatches touch on numerous subjects, including epi...Daugiau...
