Comedy and Critical Thought (eBook, ePUB)

Laughter as Resistance
Redaktion: Mackenzie, Iain; Giappone, Krista Bonello Rutter; Francis, Fred

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout history, comedians and clowns have enjoyed a certain freedom to speak frankly often denied to others in hegemonic systems. More recently, professional comedians have developed platforms of comic license from which to critique the traditional political establishment and have managed to play an important role in interrogating and mediating the processes of politics in contemporary society.

This collection will examine the questions that arise when of comedy and critique intersect by bringing together both critical theorists and comedy scholars with a view to exploring the nature of comedy, its potential role in critical theory and the forms it can take as a practice of resistance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786604088
• Artikelnr.: 51296854

Autorenporträt

Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone is the Associate Lecturer in English and Drama, University of Kent, University of Malta. Fred Francis is an Assistant Lecturer in English at the University of Kent. Iain MackKenzie is the Co-Director Centre for Critical Thought and Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Kent.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Setting the Agenda
Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone
Fred Francis and Iain MacKenzie / PART I: COMEDY
CRITIQUE AND RESISTANCE / Diagrams of Comic Estrangement
James Williams / 'Against the Assault of Laughter': Differentiating Critical and Resistant Humour
Nicholas Holm / Can We Learn the Truth from Lenny Bruce? A Careful Cognitivism about Satire
Dieter Declercq / Laughter
Liturgy
Lacan and Resistance to Capitalist Logic
Francis Stewart / Humitas: Humour as Performative Resistance
Kate Fox / PART II: LAUGHTER AS RESISTANCE? / Conformist Comedians: Political Humour in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic
Ivo Nieuwenhuis / First World War Cartoon Comedy as Criticism of British Politics and Society
Pip Gregory / A Suspended Pratfall: Mimesis and Slapstick in Contemporary Art
Levi Hanes / 'Life' in Struggle: The Indifferent Humour of Beckett's Prose Heroes
Selvin Yaltir / 'Holiday in Cambodia': Punk's Acerbic Comedy
Russ Bestley / 'What Can't Be Cured Must Be Endured': The Postcolonial