Overview
- Presents a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment
- Revisits existing humour texts in order to rethink both the political limitations and possibilities of humour as a political mode in the twenty-first century
- Brings together concerns of form and aesthetics with questions of power in a manner that not only reassesses the cultural work of humour, but also articulates a new account of the political possibilities of popular aesthetics more broadly
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Reviews
“In a historical moment marked by lively debate over the political uses of comedy and satire, Nicholas Holm’s Humour as Politics arrives to bring us the conceptual tools we need. Holm’s book is at once a thorough overview of theories of humour and a sharply observed analysis of the way in which recent media texts mobilize humour for political ends. Witty, rigorous and convincing, Humour and Politics is a landmark work ofcultural analysis.” (Will Straw, Professor, Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University, Canada)
“This is a remarkably erudite, rigorous and persuasive analysis of one of the most important, and under-studied cultural forms of our time. Making no casual assumptions about the political effects and consequences of popular comedy, Humour as Politics demonstrates with close attention the multiple ways in which humour can reproduce, trouble or overturn established norms of understanding and behaviour. An important work of cultural studies and cultural criticism, this ground-breaking study sheds crucial new light on the operations of this most central, but still elusive, point of interface between everyday life, media culture and the wider public domain.” (Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory, University of East London, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Humour as Politics
Book Subtitle: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy
Authors: Nicholas Holm
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50950-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50949-5Published: 23 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84529-6Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50950-1Published: 10 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-4332
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 223
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Film Theory, Cultural Policy and Politics, Genre, Aesthetics, Audio-Visual Culture, Comedy Studies