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Humour as Politics - The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Humour as Politics - The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
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This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy
have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand
the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic
and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and
Chappelle's Show, Holm explores how humour has become a central
site of cultural politics in the twenty-first century. More than
just a form of entertainment, humour has come to play a central
role in the contemporary media environment, shaping how we
understand ideas of freedom, empathy, social boundaries and even
logic. Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic
category, Humour as Politics challenges older models of laughter as
a form of dissent and instead argues for a new theory of humour as
the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment.
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