The politics of humour : laughter, inclusion, and exclusion in the twentieth century / edited by Martina Kessel and Patrick Merziger.
Material type: TextSeries: German and European studiesPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012 2012)Description: 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations, digital fileContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442695122
- 1442695129
- 809.7/93581 23
- PN6149.P64 P64 2012eb
- 800 | 150
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Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. Landscapes of Humour: The History and Politics of the Comical in the Twentieth Century / Martina Kessel -- 1 When Are Jewish Jokes No Longer Funny? Ethnic Humour in Imperial and Republican Berlin / Peter Jelavich -- 2 Creole Cartoons / Mark Winokur -- 3 Talking War, Debating Unity: Order, Conflict, and Exclusion in 'German Humour' in the First World War / Martina Kessel -- 4 Producing a Cheerful Public: Light Radio Entertainment during National Socialism / Monika Pater -- 5 Humour in the Volksgemeinschaft : The Disappearance of Destructive Satire in National Socialist Germany / Patrick Merziger -- 6 Laughing to Keep from Dying: Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show / Vincent Brook -- 7 Ethnic Humour and Ethnic Politics in the Netherlands: The Rules and Attraction of Clandestine Humour / Giselinde Kuipers -- 8 'The Tongues of Mocking Wenches': Humour and Gender in Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction / Eileen Gillooly.
The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century.
English.
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