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1 online resource (xxxv, 253 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: popular culture and post 9-11 politics / Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene -- First responders. Everything changes forever (temporarily): late-night television comedy after 9-11 / David Gurney -- "Where was King Kong when we needed him?": public discourse, digital disaster jokes, and the functions of laughter after 9-11 / Giselinde Kuipers -- The Arab is the new nigger: African American comics confront the irony & tragedy of 9-11 / Lanita Jacobs -- Humor, terror, and dissent: The onion after 9-11 / Jamie Warner -- Enter the "war on terror." Laughs, tears, and breakfast cereals: rethinking trauma and post 9-11 politics in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Ted Gournelos -- Republican decline and culture wars in 9-11 humor / David Holloway -- Critique, counternarratives, and ironic intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert / Viveca Greene -- Humoring 9/11 skepticism / Michael Truscello -- Rethinking post-9/11 politics. Laughing doves: U.S. antiwar satire from Niagara to Fallujah / Aaron Winter -- Hummer rhymes with dumber: neoliberalism, irony, and the cartoons of Jeff Danziger / David Monje -- Laughing all the way to the bank: Enron, humor, and political economy / Gavin Benke -- What's so funny about a dead terrorist?: toward an ethics of humor for the digital age / Paul Lewis -- Coda: humor, pedagogy, and cultural studies / Arthur Asa Berger. |
| Summary |
This volume analyses ways in which popular and visual culture used humour -in a variety of forms - to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. It brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humour and irony on both media discourse and tangible political reality. Furthermore, it demonstrates that laughter is simultaneously an avenue through which social issues are deferred or obfuscated, a way in which neo-liberal or neo-conservative rhetoric is challenged, and a means of forming alternative political ideologies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Political culture. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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21st century |
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) |
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Mass media -- Political aspects. |
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American wit and humor -- History and criticism.
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Political satire, American.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Humor.
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American wit and humor. |
| Chronological Term |
2001-2009 |
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Humor.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
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Political satire, American. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century. |
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Politics and government. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Humor.
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| Added Author |
Gournelos, Ted, 1979- editor.
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Greene, Viveca, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Decade of dark humor. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2011 1617030066 (DLC) 2010053395 (OCoLC)679919094 |
| ISBN |
1617030074 (electronic book) |
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9781617030079 (electronic book) |
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1617030066 |
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9781617030062 |
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