Taking comedy seriously : stand-up's dissident potential in mass culture /
This book contextualizes contemporary stand-up comedy within the wider socio-political terrain of neoliberal capitalism, contributing to a more complex and developed understanding of the relation of jokes and humor to the unconscious mind in its relation to ideology and discourse.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2019]
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| Series: | Politics and comedy : critical encounters
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Comedy is no laughing matter!
- Sketching the terrain of stand-up comedy
- The resurgence of stand-up comedy
- The ideological situation of contemporary stand-up comedy
- The comedic performance as dissensus
- Re-locating the political dimension of contemporary stand-up comedy in the performances of Ellen Degeneres, Pieter-Dirk Uys and Trevor Noah
- Conclusion. Comically paradoxical and paradoxically comic.