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A decade of dark humor : how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America
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- Creator
- edited by Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xxxv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1617030066, 9781617030079, 9781617030062, 1617030074
- OCLC
- ocn679919094, ocn758384936
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
- Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
- American wit and humor -- History and criticism.
- Political satire, American.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Humor.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.