The social faces of humour : practices and issues /

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مؤلفون آخرون: Powell, Chris, 1951-, Wagg, Stephen, Paton, George E. C.
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في: Aldershot : Brookfield, Vt. : Arena ; Ashgate Pub, c1996.
سلاسل:Popular cultural studies ; 11
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جدول المحتويات:
  • 1. The politics of laughter / Arthur Asa Berger
  • 2. Puritanical and politically correct? A critical historical account of changes in the censorship of comedy by the BBC / Christie Davies
  • 3. The status of verbal humour in British society: contextual aspects of English humour / Richard J. Alexander
  • 4. 'Down with Skool!': the perspective of youth in contemporary western humour / Jessica Milner Davis
  • 5. Humour at work and the work of humour / George E. C. Paton and Ivan L. Filby
  • 6. Laughing on the other side of your PACE? An analysis of cartoons appearing in Police Review 1979-1993 / Chris Powell
  • 7. Mixed feelings: ambivalence, sexuality and cartoon humour / Ruth Waterhouse
  • 8. 'It's only a joke': the role of humour in mother-in-law relationships / Pamela Cotterill
  • 9. The sick disaster joke as carnivalesque postmodern narrative impulse / Richard J. Ellis
  • 10. Laughter in its place / Stephen Hester.
  • 11. Laughter, footing and the tolerantial self / Greg Smith
  • 12. Stepping into Wayne's World: exploring postmodern comedy / Jason Rutter
  • 13. Everything else is propaganda: the politics of alternative comedy / Stephen Wagg.