UID:
almafu_9959243483702883
Format:
1 online resource (234 p.)
ISBN:
1-4426-9513-7
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1-4426-9512-9
Series Statement:
German and European Studies
Content:
The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century.
Note:
Introduction. Landscapes of Humour: The History and Politics of the Comical in the Twentieth Century / Martina Kessel -- 1 When Are Jewish Jokes No Longer Funny? Ethnic Humour in Imperial and Republican Berlin / Peter Jelavich -- 2 Creole Cartoons / Mark Winokur -- 3 Talking War, Debating Unity: Order, Conflict, and Exclusion in 'German Humour' in the First World War / Martina Kessel -- 4 Producing a Cheerful Public: Light Radio Entertainment during National Socialism / Monika Pater -- 5 Humour in the Volksgemeinschaft : The Disappearance of Destructive Satire in National Socialist Germany / Patrick Merziger -- 6 Laughing to Keep from Dying: Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show / Vincent Brook -- 7 Ethnic Humour and Ethnic Politics in the Netherlands: The Rules and Attraction of Clandestine Humour / Giselinde Kuipers -- 8 'The Tongues of Mocking Wenches': Humour and Gender in Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction / Eileen Gillooly.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-4292-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442695122
