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This volume comprises sixteen papers presented at 2006 and 2009 humor colloquia held in the German city of Kassel as part of a festival of comic literature and humor research (Festival zur Literatur und Wissenschaft des Komischen). The first seven contributions address how forms and expressions of the comic have changed over time. They cover a broad spectrum of genres (e.g., newspaper caricatures, eighteenth-century German comedies, British television comedy series) and range from theoretical reflections on the connections between humor and power to detailed analysis of a contemporary French comic strip. Depending on the author's perspective, different types of transformations in humor and comedy are identified. Ranging across eighteenth-century comic forms to the humor formats of contemporary television comedy, Eckart Schörle reminds us that laughter depends not merely on the quality of humor productions but also on their social framework. Consequently, as political and social systems change, so do production and reception of humor. Noting the internationalization of the media market and the success of British and American television comedy series, Schörle points to growing exchan
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- Author
- Holger Kersten
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- DE
- Field
- Psychology (Social Sciences)