Comedy and the Politics of Representation 1st ed. Edition Helen Davies

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319905058
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319905051
• Author(s): Helen Davies, Sarah Ilott

This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which “humorous” constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture. Should there be limits to free speech when humour is aimed at marginalised social groups? What are the limits of free speech when comedy pokes fun at those who hold social power? Can taboo joking be used towards politically progressive ends? Can stereotypes be mocked through their re-invocation? Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak breaks new theoretical ground by demonstrating how the way people are represented mediates the triadic relationship set up in comedy between teller, audience and butt of the joke. By bringing together a selection of essays from international scholars, this study unpacks and examines the dynamic role that humour plays in making and remaking identity and power relations in culture and society.

Table contents:

1. Mocking the Weak? Contexts, Theories, Politics
2. Taking Liberties? Free Speech, Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Satire
3. Openness, Otherness, and Expertise: Uncertainty and Trust in Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
4. British Multiculturalism, Romantic Comedy, and the Lie of Social Unification
5. Parodying Racial Passing in Chappelle’s Show and Key & Peele
6. Blackness and Banal Whiteness: Abjection and Identity in the Italian Christmas Comedy
7. Sexual and National Difference in the High-Speed, Popular Surrealism of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau’s Double Acts, 1929–1936
8. From Terry and June to Terry and Julian: June Whitfield and the British Suburban Sitcom
9. Saintly Cretins and Ugly Buglys: Laughing at Victorian Disability in Hunderby
10. Standing Up to False Binaries in Humour and Autism: A Dialogue
11. Comedy and the Representation of the British Working Class from On the Buses to This Is England ’90
12. Theorising Post-Socialist Sitcom: Imported Form, Vernacular Humour and Taste Boundaries on the Global Periphery
13. Smile, Hitler? Nazism and Comedy in Popular Culture
14. POTUS Stand-Up: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

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