Humour as Politics
Autor: | Holm, Nicholas |
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EAN: | 9783319509495 |
Auflage: | 001 |
Sachgruppe: | Kunst |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 236 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 23.10.2017 |
Untertitel: | The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy |
Schlagworte: | Film Film / Geschichte Film / Kritik, Rezeption Film / Theorie, Analyse Gattung Kinematografie Philosophie Ästhetik |
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This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and Chappelle¿s Show, Holm explores how humour has become a central site of cultural politics in the twenty-first century. More than just a form of entertainment, humour has come to play a central role in the contemporary media environment, shaping how we understand ideas of freedom, empathy, social boundaries and even logic. Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models of laughter as a form of dissent and instead argues for a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment.