Holm, Nicholas
Humour as Politics
1. Introduction: Living in Comic Times
Nicholas Holm
2. Dissent in Jest: Humour in the Liberal Moment
Nicholas Holm
3. Telling Jokes to Power: The (A)Political Work of Humour
Nicholas Holm
4. Humour Without Anaesthetic: The Discomfort of Reality Comedy
Nicholas Holm
5. Humour Without Pity: The Scandal of Provocative Humour
Nicholas Holm
6. Humour Without Reason: The Nonsense of Absurd Humour
Nicholas Holm
7. All that is Solid Collapses into Giggles: Examining the Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Humour
Nicholas Holm
8. Conclusion: The Last Laugh
Nicholas Holm
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film Theory, Cultural Policy and Politics, Genre, Aesthetics, Audio-Visual Culture
- Author(s)
- Holm, Nicholas
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Comedy
- Page amount
- 12 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319509501
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-50949-5