ISBN:
9780415129206
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (336 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Because I Tell a Joke or Two : Comedy, Politics and Social Difference
DDC:
306.481
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉Because I Tell a Joke or Two〈/I〉 explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Contributors; INTRODUCTION; 'AT EASE, CORPORAL' Social class and the situation comedy in British television, from the 1950s to the 1990s; THE LANCASHIRE SHAMAN Frank Randle and Mancunian Films; BUTTERFLIES AND CAUSTIC ASIDES Housewives, comedy and the feminist movement; TARTS, TAMPONS AND TYRANTS Women and representation in British comedy; CERTAIN LIBERTIES HAVE BEEN TAKEN WITH CLEOPATRA Female performance in the Carry On films; PUNCHING YOUR WEIGHT Conversations with Jo Brand; THE STRAIGHT MEN OF COMEDY
Description / Table of Contents:
SUITS AND SEQUINS Lesbian comedians in Britain and the US in the 1990s'YEAH, AND I USED TO BE A HUNCHBACK' Immigrants, humour and the Marx Brothers; 'WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME' Open convictions and closed contexts in the American situation comedy; CRINGE AND STRUT Comedy and national identity in post-war Australia; 'SERIOUS T'ING' The black comedy circuit in England; 'THEY ALREADY GOT A COMEDIAN FOR GOVERNOR' Comedians and politics in the United States and Great Britain; VIZ Gender, class and taboo
Description / Table of Contents:
HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE WHITE MIDDLE-CLASS HETEROSEXUAL FATHER-IN-LAW? Gender, ethnicity and political correctness in comedyIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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