ISBN:
9789042026735
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9042026731
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (386 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 70
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender and laughter
DDC:
306.481
Keywords:
Wit and humor History and criticism
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Sex role Humor
;
Gender identity Humor
;
Literature History and criticism
;
Wit and humor in motion pictures
;
Laughter
;
Comedy
;
Comic, The
;
Wit and humor History and criticism
;
Sex role Humor
;
Gender identity Humor
;
Literature History and criticism
;
Laughter
;
Comedy
;
Comic, The
;
Literature History and criticism
;
Wit and humor History and criticism
;
Gender identity Humor
;
Sex role Humor
;
Wit and humor in motion pictures
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Comedy
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Comic, The
;
Gender identity
;
Laughter
;
Literature
;
Wit and humor in motion pictures
;
Sex role
;
Wit and humor
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Humor
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Humor
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"This essay collection is dedicated to intersections between gender theories and theories of laughter, humour, and comedy. It is based on the results of a three-year research programme, entitled "Gender - Laughter - Media" (2003-2006) and includes a series of investigations on traditional and modern media in western cultures from the 18th to the 20th century. A theoretical opening part is followed by four thematic sections that explore the multiple forms of irritating stereotypical gender perceptions; aspects of (post- )colonialism and multiculturalism; the comic impact of literary and media genres in different national cultures; as well as the different comic strategies in fictional, philosophical, artistic or real life communication. The volume presents a variety of new approaches to the overlaps between gender and laughter that have only barely been considered in groundbreaking research. It forms a valuable read for scholars of literary, theatre, media, and cultural studies, at the same time reaching out to a general readership."--Publisher's website
Abstract:
Preliminary Material /Gaby Pailer , Andreas Böhn , Stefan Horlacher and Ulrich Scheck --Introduction /Gaby Pailer --A Short Introduction to Theories of Humour, the Comic, and Laughter /Stefan Horlacher --Subversions of Gender Identities through Laughter and the Comic? /Andreas Böhn --"Kiss a white Galathea, she will laugh and blush": Laughter, Blush, and Gender Roles in Gottfried Keller's Novella Cycle A Formula for Love. The Epigram (1881) /Jessica Hamann --"A comic turn, turned serious": Humour, Body Modification, and the Natural in Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She Devil /Beth Pentney --"From now on, I am Carmen": Imagining Cross-Dressing as Comic Protest in the Life and Work of Romanian-German Author Franz Hodjak /Raluca Cernahoschi --Where No Woman Has Gone Before: Humour and Gender Crossing in Star Trek's Voyager and Enterprise /Ulrich Scheck --"To be educated is to become a Harlequin": Cross-Skinning as Carnivalesque Hybridity in Michel Serres, Hannah Höch's Dada, and Orlan's Body Art /Markus Hallensleben --Multi-Layered Conflicts with the Norm: Gender and Cultural Diversity in Two Comedies of the German Enlightenment /Gaby Pailer --Indigenous Laughter: The Voice of the Other in Tales from the "South Seas" /Sabine Wilke --Subverting the Pantragic Heroine: Nestroy against Hebbel /Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza --Black and White in Color or Black Victory? The Comic Effect of Displacement in the Film Noirs et blancs en couleur (1976) by Jean-Jacques Annaud /Jakub Kazecki --The City as Stage of Transgression: Performance, Picaresque Reminiscences, and Linguistic Incongruity in Emine S. Özdamar's The Bridge of the Golden Horn /Karin Lornsen --Moral Ideal and Physical Desire: Gender Roles, Sex, and Comic Elements in the Rococo Tales of Christoph Martin Wieland /Andreas Seidler --Social Satire, Literary Parody, and Gender Critique in French and German Fairy Tales of the Enlightenment: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friederike Helene Unger /Birte Giesler --"But I'm a Lady!" Undoing Gender Bending in Contemporary British Radio Comedy /Ellie Kennedy --Mockumentalism: Re-Casting the Void in Contemporary British TV Comedy /Stear Peter --Couples and Friends: Comic Strategies and Social Structures in German and American Comedy Series /Christine Mielke --Affirmative Humour in Bully Herbig's Parody of Star Wars/Star Trek: (T)Raumschiff Surprise /Frank Degler --May I Laugh about Women's Lib? or: The Difficult Relationship of Humour and Feminism in Margaret Atwood, Caryl Churchill, and Helen Fielding /Susanne Bach --Aletheia as Striptease: Gendered Allegories of Truth in Heidegger, Gorgias, and Barthes /Stefan Börnchen --Judith Butler and the Problem of Adequacy, or: The Epistemological Dimension of Laughter /Volker Helbig --Comparing Same-Gender and Opposite-Gender Conversations: a Laughing Matter? /Caroline L. Rieger --The Joy of Anti-Art: Subversion through Humour in Dada /Oliver C. Speck --List of Contributors /Gaby Pailer , Andreas Böhn , Stefan Horlacher and Ulrich Scheck.
Description / Table of Contents:
Genderlaughter -- media: theoretical crossings -- Gender b(l)ending: the comic impact of cross-dressing and body alteration -- Cross-cultural encounters: race, gender, and the comic -- Gender, genre, and the comic: literature, radio, television, and cinema -- Comic stratiegies: gender and laughter in literature, theory, communication, and art.
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Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record
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