Rolling : Blackness and mediated comedy /
Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled, intrigued, angered and entertained the masses. Rolling is a collection centering Blackness in comedy, especially on television and observing that Blackness is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives and the comedic. But like W.E.B....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2024].
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| Series: | Comedy & culture
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| Summary: | Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled, intrigued, angered and entertained the masses. Rolling is a collection centering Blackness in comedy, especially on television and observing that Blackness is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives and the comedic. But like W.E.B. DuBois' ideas about double consciousness, and Racquel Gates' extension of his theories, we know that Blackness resonates for Black viewers in ways often entirely different for white viewers. Contributors to this volume cover a range of cases representing African American humor across film, television, digital media and stand-up as Black comic personas try to work within, outside and around the culture industries tilling for content. Essays engage with the complex industrial interplay of Blackness, white audiences and comedy, satire and humor on streaming platforms, television networks or digital media, and the production of Blackness within comedy through personal stories and interviews of Black folks working on crews and writing for television comedy. Rolling truly illuminates the innerworkings of Blackness and comedy in media discourse. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253068873 0253068878 9780253068880 0253068886 |