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A decade of dark humor

how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America

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An edition of A decade of dark humor (2011)

A decade of dark humor

how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America

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253

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A decade of dark humor: how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America
2011, University Press of Mississippi
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Table of 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Jackson

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Dewey Decimal Class
973.931
Library of Congress
E902 .D423 2011, E902.D423 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxv, 253 p. :
Number of pages
253

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Open Library
OL25075515M
Internet Archive
decadedarkhumorh00gour
ISBN 10
1617030066, 1617030074
ISBN 13
9781617030062, 9781617030079
LCCN
2010053395
OCLC/WorldCat
679919094

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