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Title A decade of dark humor : how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America / edited by Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene.
Publication Info Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2011.


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Contents Introduction: popular culture and post 9-11 politics / Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene -- First responders. Everything changes forever (temporarily): late-night television comedy after 9-11 / David Gurney -- "Where was King Kong when we needed him?": public discourse, digital disaster jokes, and the functions of laughter after 9-11 / Giselinde Kuipers -- The Arab is the new nigger: African American comics confront the irony & tragedy of 9-11 / Lanita Jacobs -- Humor, terror, and dissent: The onion after 9-11 / Jamie Warner -- Enter the "war on terror." Laughs, tears, and breakfast cereals: rethinking trauma and post 9-11 politics in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Ted Gournelos -- Republican decline and culture wars in 9-11 humor / David Holloway -- Critique, counternarratives, and ironic intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert / Viveca Greene -- Humoring 9/11 skepticism / Michael Truscello -- Rethinking post-9/11 politics. Laughing doves: U.S. antiwar satire from Niagara to Fallujah / Aaron Winter -- Hummer rhymes with dumber: neoliberalism, irony, and the cartoons of Jeff Danziger / David Monje -- Laughing all the way to the bank: Enron, humor, and political economy / Gavin Benke -- What's so funny about a dead terrorist?: toward an ethics of humor for the digital age / Paul Lewis -- Coda: humor, pedagogy, and cultural studies / Arthur Asa Berger.
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ISBN 1617030074 electronic bk.
9781617030079 electronic bk.
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Subject Political culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
American wit and humour -- History and criticism.
Political satire, American.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Humour.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
Alt author Gournelos, Ted, 1979- editor.
Greene, Viveca, editor.
Descript 1 online resource (xxxv, 253 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
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Contents Introduction: popular culture and post 9-11 politics / Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene -- First responders. Everything changes forever (temporarily): late-night television comedy after 9-11 / David Gurney -- "Where was King Kong when we needed him?": public discourse, digital disaster jokes, and the functions of laughter after 9-11 / Giselinde Kuipers -- The Arab is the new nigger: African American comics confront the irony & tragedy of 9-11 / Lanita Jacobs -- Humor, terror, and dissent: The onion after 9-11 / Jamie Warner -- Enter the "war on terror." Laughs, tears, and breakfast cereals: rethinking trauma and post 9-11 politics in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Ted Gournelos -- Republican decline and culture wars in 9-11 humor / David Holloway -- Critique, counternarratives, and ironic intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert / Viveca Greene -- Humoring 9/11 skepticism / Michael Truscello -- Rethinking post-9/11 politics. Laughing doves: U.S. antiwar satire from Niagara to Fallujah / Aaron Winter -- Hummer rhymes with dumber: neoliberalism, irony, and the cartoons of Jeff Danziger / David Monje -- Laughing all the way to the bank: Enron, humor, and political economy / Gavin Benke -- What's so funny about a dead terrorist?: toward an ethics of humor for the digital age / Paul Lewis -- Coda: humor, pedagogy, and cultural studies / Arthur Asa Berger.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 1617030074 electronic bk.
9781617030079 electronic bk.
Subject Political culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
American wit and humour -- History and criticism.
Political satire, American.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Humour.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
Alt author Gournelos, Ted, 1979- editor.
Greene, Viveca, editor.

Subject Political culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
American wit and humour -- History and criticism.
Political satire, American.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Humour.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
Descript 1 online resource (xxxv, 253 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
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Contents Introduction: popular culture and post 9-11 politics / Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene -- First responders. Everything changes forever (temporarily): late-night television comedy after 9-11 / David Gurney -- "Where was King Kong when we needed him?": public discourse, digital disaster jokes, and the functions of laughter after 9-11 / Giselinde Kuipers -- The Arab is the new nigger: African American comics confront the irony & tragedy of 9-11 / Lanita Jacobs -- Humor, terror, and dissent: The onion after 9-11 / Jamie Warner -- Enter the "war on terror." Laughs, tears, and breakfast cereals: rethinking trauma and post 9-11 politics in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Ted Gournelos -- Republican decline and culture wars in 9-11 humor / David Holloway -- Critique, counternarratives, and ironic intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert / Viveca Greene -- Humoring 9/11 skepticism / Michael Truscello -- Rethinking post-9/11 politics. Laughing doves: U.S. antiwar satire from Niagara to Fallujah / Aaron Winter -- Hummer rhymes with dumber: neoliberalism, irony, and the cartoons of Jeff Danziger / David Monje -- Laughing all the way to the bank: Enron, humor, and political economy / Gavin Benke -- What's so funny about a dead terrorist?: toward an ethics of humor for the digital age / Paul Lewis -- Coda: humor, pedagogy, and cultural studies / Arthur Asa Berger.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Gournelos, Ted, 1979- editor.
Greene, Viveca, editor.
ISBN 1617030074 electronic bk.
9781617030079 electronic bk.
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