All joking aside : American humor and its discontents
- Title
- All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / Rebecca Krefting.
- Published by
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 346 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction: American humor and its discontents -- Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor -- Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor -- Laughing into the new millennium -- When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption -- Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd' -- Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes -- Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy -- Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh.
- Call number
- MWET 14-6956
- Note
- Includes filmographies and discographies (pages 269-235).
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Krefting, Rebecca, 1978- author.
- Title
- All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / Rebecca Krefting.
- Publisher
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- LCCN
- 2013045490
- ISBN
- 9781421414294 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781421414300 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781421414317 (electronic)
- 1421414295 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1421414309 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1421414317 (electronic)
- Research call number
- MWET 14-6956