All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents - Paperback
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A professor of American Studies--and stand-up comic--examines sharply focused comedy and its cultural utility in contemporary society.
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In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our...
Rebecca Krefting is an assistant professor of American Studies at Skidmore College. Her recent publications include: "Laughter in the Final Instance: The Cultural Economy of Humor," an essay in the anthology The Laughing Stalk and a co-authored chapter, "Placing Space: Architecture, Action, Dimension--Pedagogy and Practice," published in Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Wome...
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