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How the Other Half Laughs - The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,053
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How the Other Half Laughs - The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (Paperback): Jean Lee Cole

How the Other Half Laughs - The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (Paperback)

Jean Lee Cole

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Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial. Comic artists and writers, hoping to create works that would appeal to a diverse Audience, had to formulate a method for making the "other half" laugh. In magazine fiction, vaudeville, and the comic strip, the oppressive conditions of the poor and the marginalized were portrayed unflinchingly, yet with a distinctly comic sensibility that grew out of caricature and ethnic humor. Author Jean Lee Cole analyzes Progressive Era popular culture, providing a critical angle to approach visual and literary humor about ethnicity-how avenues of comedy serve as expressions of solidarity, commiseration, and empowerment. Cole's argument centers on the comic sensibility, which she defines as a performative act that fosters feelings of solidarity and community among the marginalized. Cole stresses the connections between the worlds of art, journalism, and literature and the people who produced them-including George Herriman, R. F. Outcault, Rudolph Dirks, Jimmy Swinnerton, George Luks, and William Glackens-and traces the form's emergence in the pages of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's Journal-American and how it influenced popular fiction, illustration, and art. How the Other Half Laughs restores the newspaper comic strip to its rightful place as a transformative element of American culture at the turn into the twentieth century.

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Imprint: University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2020
Authors: Jean Lee Cole
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-2653-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > Cartoons & comic strips
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN: 1-4968-2653-1
Barcode: 9781496826534

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