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Essays That Illustrate How Humor Transformed 9/11 Politics And 9/11 Transformed Humor With Essays By: Gavin Benke Arthur Asa Berger Ted Gournelos Viveca S. Greene David Gurney David Holloway Lanita Jacobs Giselinde Kuipers Paul Lewis David Monje Michael Truscello Jamie Warner Aaron Winter A Decade Of Dark Humor Analyzes Ways In Which Popular And Visual Culture Used Humor--in A Variety Of Forms--to Confront The Attacks Of September 11, 2001, And, More Specifically, The Aftermath. This Interdisciplinary Volume Brings Together Scholars From Four Countries To Discuss The Impact Of Humor And Irony On Both Media Discourse And Tangible Political Reality. Furthermore, It Demonstrates That Laughter Is Simultaneously An Avenue Through Which Social Issues Are Deferred Or Obfuscated, A Way In Which Neoliberal Or Neoconservative Rhetoric Is Challenged, And A Means Of Forming Alternative Political Ideologies.^ The Volume's Contributors Cover A Broad Range Of Media Productions, Including News Parodies (the Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Onion), Tv Roundtable Shows (politically Incorrect With Bill Maher), Comic Strips And Cartoons (aaron Mcgruder's The Boondocks, Jeff Danzing

Author

Gournelos, Ted; Greene, Viveca S.

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781617030062

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities