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Articles

  1. Humor Across Media in the 1920s and 1930s: An Introduction
  2. Rob King
  3. pp. 135-141
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  1. As the Crow Flies: The Intermediality of Moran and Mack
  2. Nicholas Sammond
  3. pp. 142-162
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  1. Becoming Benny: The Evolution of Jack Benny’s Character Comedy from Vaudeville to Radio
  2. Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
  3. pp. 163-191
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  1. The U.S. Hispanic Flapper: Pelonas and Flapperismo in U.S. Spanish-Language Newspapers, 1920–1929
  2. Maria Montserrat Feu López
  3. pp. 192-217
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  1. Waltzing with Thurber: Gender and Humor in Doris Humphrey and Vivian Fine’s The Race of Life
  2. Rachel Lumsden
  3. pp. 218-254
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  1. “Yoo-Hoo, Prosperity!”: Eddie Cantor and the Great Depression, 1929–36
  2. Margaret T. Mcfadden
  3. pp. 255-278
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Book Reviews

  1. A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-up Comedy by Ian Brodie (review)
  2. David Gillota
  3. pp. 279-281
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  1. The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny by Peter McGraw and Joel Warner (review)
  2. Miriam Chirico
  3. pp. 281-284
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  1. HA! The Science of When We Laugh and Why by Scott Weems (review)
  2. David E. E. Sloane
  3. pp. 285-287
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  1. Comedy by Andrew Stott (review)
  2. James E. Caron
  3. pp. 287-291
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  1. Silent Film Comedy and American Culture by Alan Bilton (review)
  2. Aner Preminger
  3. pp. 291-295
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  1. The Politics of Irony in American Modernism by Matthew Stratton (review)
  2. Eric Rettberg
  3. pp. 296-298
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  1. No Billionaire Left Behind: Satirical Activism in America by Angelique Hagerud, and: Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World by Kembrew McLeod (review)
  2. Matthew R. Meier
  3. pp. 299-303
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  1. American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt by John Beckman, and: The Trickster Figure in American Literature by Winifred Morgan (review)
  2. Erin Guydish
  3. pp. 303-308
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  1. The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and their Enduring Power by Victor S. Navasky (review)
  2. Lawrence R. Bush
  3. pp. 308-311
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  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 312-314
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