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Winner, MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association /
Midwest American Culture Association, 2020 From classical Hollywood
film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the
developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a
mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing
that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of
comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge
work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy
Studies Reader. This anthology brings together classic articles,
more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of
themes and approaches for studying comedic media-the carnivalesque,
comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race
and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization.
The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin,
Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and
emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two
parallel trends in the evolution of the field-first, comedy's
development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a
tendency that has led many popular commentators to characterize the
present as a "comedy zeitgeist"; and second, comedy studies' new
focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in
"serious" discursive realms, including politics, economics, race,
gender, and cultural power.
A 2022 Best Comedy Book, Vulture A rousing call for liberals and
progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy
and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate
comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of
questions launch a million tweets, a thousand op-eds, and more than
a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both
an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that
comedy has a liberal bias. Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx take
readers--particularly self-described liberals--on a tour of
contemporary conservative comedy and the "right-wing comedy
complex." In That's Not Funny, "complex" takes on an important
double meaning. On the one hand, liberals have developed a
social-psychological complex-it feels difficult, even dangerous, to
acknowledge that their political opposition can produce comedy. At
the same time, the right has been slowly building up a
comedy-industrial complex, utilizing the humorous, irony-laden
media strategies of liberals such as Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, and
John Oliver to garner audiences and supporters. Right-wing comedy
has been hiding in plain sight, finding its way into mainstream
conservative media through figures ranging from Fox News's Greg
Gutfeld to libertarian podcasters like Joe Rogan. That's Not Funny
taps interviews with conservative comedians and observations of
them in action to guide readers through media history, text, and
technique. You will find many of these comedians utterly appalling,
some surprisingly funny, and others just plain weird. They are all,
however, culturally and politically relevant-the American right is
attempting to seize spaces of comedy and irony previously held
firmly by the left. You might not like this brand of humor, but you
can't ignore it.
Winner, MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association /
Midwest American Culture Association, 2020 From classical Hollywood
film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the
developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a
mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing
that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of
comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge
work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy
Studies Reader. This anthology brings together classic articles,
more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of
themes and approaches for studying comedic media-the carnivalesque,
comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race
and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization.
The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin,
Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and
emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two
parallel trends in the evolution of the field-first, comedy's
development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a
tendency that has led many popular commentators to characterize the
present as a "comedy zeitgeist"; and second, comedy studies' new
focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in
"serious" discursive realms, including politics, economics, race,
gender, and cultural power.
For over 35 years, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night "
has greeted late night TV viewers looking for the best in sketch
comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the
careers of a mass of comedians including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase,
Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Adam
Sandler, among others. Week after week, SNL has produced
unforgettable sketches and provocative political satire, adapting
to changing times while staying true to its original vision of
performing timely topical humor. With essays that address issues
ranging from race and gender to authorship and comedic performance,
"Saturday Night Live" and American TV follows the history of this
36-time Emmy-winning show and its place in the shifting social and
media landscape of American television."
For over 35 years, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night "
has greeted late night TV viewers looking for the best in sketch
comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the
careers of a mass of comedians including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase,
Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Adam
Sandler, among others. Week after week, SNL has produced
unforgettable sketches and provocative political satire, adapting
to changing times while staying true to its original vision of
performing timely topical humor. With essays that address issues
ranging from race and gender to authorship and comedic performance,
"Saturday Night Live" and American TV follows the history of this
36-time Emmy-winning show and its place in the shifting social and
media landscape of American television."
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