All joking aside
Krefting, Rebecca, 1978-
All joking aside American humor and its discontents / [electronic resource] : Rebecca Krefting. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421414317 1421414317
Participatory theater.
Comedy--History and criticism.
Stand-up comedy--United States.
Electronic books.
PN1969.C65 / .K74 2014
792.7/60973
All joking aside American humor and its discontents / [electronic resource] : Rebecca Krefting. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781421414317 1421414317
Participatory theater.
Comedy--History and criticism.
Stand-up comedy--United States.
Electronic books.
PN1969.C65 / .K74 2014
792.7/60973