Joke Is on Us
Julie A. Webber (Redaktør) James Brassett (Innledning) Marc-Olivier Castagner (Innledning) Seçil Dagtas (Innledning) Jessyka Finley (Innledning) Viveca Greene (Innledning) David Grondin (Innledning) Rebecca Krefting (Innledning) Thomas Lawson (Innledning) Sophia McClennen (Innledning) Aaron McKain (Innledning) Diane Rubenstein (Innledning) Don Waisanen (Innledning) Simon Weaver (Innledning) Julie A. Webber (Innledning)
«Don’t pick up The Joke is on Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times edited by Julie Webber if what you’re looking for is a funny-haha book. The contributors are not stand-up comedians, nor are they trying to tell jokes. If, instead, you’re looking for serious examinations about how satire, irony, and humor—often weapons of the weak deployed against authoritarians--have been coopted and diffused by neoliberal forces and regimes (corporate capitalism, big data surveillance systems, alt-right conspirators, and racist truthers), then this is the book for you. Don’t expect Saturday Night Live or the Comedy Channel to save us, they warn.»
John Seery, Pomona College
This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lexington Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781498569842
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«Don’t pick up The Joke is on Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times edited by Julie Webber if what you’re looking for is a funny-haha book. The contributors are not stand-up comedians, nor are they trying to tell jokes. If, instead, you’re looking for serious examinations about how satire, irony, and humor—often weapons of the weak deployed against authoritarians--have been coopted and diffused by neoliberal forces and regimes (corporate capitalism, big data surveillance systems, alt-right conspirators, and racist truthers), then this is the book for you. Don’t expect Saturday Night Live or the Comedy Channel to save us, they warn.»
John Seery, Pomona College
«Who gets the last laugh on the late-stage of neoliberalism? As this timely collection suggests, the joke is ultimately on all of us on the losing side of a corporate run humor-mill that keeps us laughing-mad across the political aisles. Amidst the toxic tides of austerity, white nationalism, xenophobia, and rampant misogyny, we’ve been conditioned to look to late-night, white, and (mostly) male corporate-jesters to reassure us that Trump and his troll army will be impeached any day now. Comedy won’t save us from this nightmare, as political and economic elites are the ones laughing… all the way to the bank.»
Raúl Pérez, University of Denver