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The Cultural Set Up of Comedy
Affective Politics in the United States Post 9/11
This book is available to read until 23rd December, 2025
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more
About this book
How do various forms of comedy – including stand-up, satire, and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality transformed through comedic performances on social media? The Cultural Set Up of Comedy seeks to answer these questions by examining comedic performances by Chris Rock and Louis C.K., news parodies The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, the role of satire in the Arab Spring and the groundbreaking performances by women in Bridesmaids. Breaking with the usual cultural studies debates over how to conceptualize youth, the book instead focuses on the comedic cultural and political scripts that frame them.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: The Cultural Set Up of Comedy
- Chapter 2: Re-signifying the F-word: Comedy as Political Resistance or Entrenchment?
- Chapter 3: Breaking the ‘Crass Ceiling’: Women as Comedians
- Chapter 4: The Tone of Political Comedy in The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
- Chapter 5: Globalizing Political Humor
- Conclusion: After Comedy
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Page