Russell Peterson

Strange Bedfellows

How Late-Night Comedy Turns Democracy Into a Joke

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Produktbeschreibung

From Johnny Carson to Jon Stewart, to Stephen Colberts roasting of President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Strange Bedfellows explores what Americans have found so funny about our political institutions and the people who inhabit them, and asks what this says about the health of our democracy, Peterson shows how each brand of satire plays off a different level of Americans frustrations with politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780813542843
• ISBN-10: 0813542847
• Artikelnr.: 23440411

Autorenporträt

RUSSELL L. PETERSON teaches American studies at the University of Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Losing Our Religion
2. "Showmen is Devoid of Politics": The Roots of Pseudo-Satire and the Rise
of the Comedy-Industrial Complex
3. Film at 11:00, Jokes at 11:30: Topical Comedy and the News
4. The Personal and the Political
5. Pay No Attention to That Man in Front of the Curtain
6. Truth versus Truthiness; or, Looking for Mr. Smith
7. For Whom the Bell Dings
8. Laughing All the Way to the White House
9. Irony is Dead...Long Live Satire? 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index