In this Book
- No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Dartmouth College Press
summary
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection—which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor—seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark’s Muhammad cartoons controversy, the contributors inquire into the role that racial and ethnic stereotypes play in visual humor and the thin line that separates broad characterization as a source of humor from its power to shock or exploit. The authors investigate the ways in which humor is used to demean or give identity to racial, national, or ethnic groups and explore how humor works differently in different media, such as cartoons, photographs, film, video, television, and physical performance.
This is a timely and necessary study that will appeal to scholars across disciplines.
This is a timely and necessary study that will appeal to scholars across disciplines.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
- Part 1 | Encountering Humor: Racial, National, and Ethnic Stereotypes
- Five | The Other Within
- pp. 128-141
- Part 2 | Racial Humor and Theories of Modern Media
- Part 3 | Performative Comedy and Race
- Contributors
- pp. 339-342
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611688221
Related ISBN(s)
9781611688207
MARC Record
OCLC
933515965
Pages
328
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No