Kessel / Merziger The Politics of Humour

Laughter, Inclusion and Exclusion in the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-9512-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: German and European Studies

The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kessel, Martina

Merziger, Patrick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Introduction: Landscapes of Humour. The History and Politics of the Comical in the Twentieth Century by Martina Kesse (University of Bielefeld, Germany) - When Are Jewish Jokes No Longer Funny? Ethnic Humour in Imperial and Republican Berlin by Peter Jelavich (Johns Hopkins University)
- Creole Cartoons by Mark Winokur (University of Colorado)
- Talking War, Debating Unity. Order, Conflict, and Exclusion in 'German Humour' in World War One by Martina Kessel
- Producing a Cheerful Public. Light Radio Entertainment During National Socialism by Monika Pater (Hamburg University)
- Humour in the Volksgemeinschaft. The Disappearance of Destructive Satire in National Socialist Germany by Patrick Merziger (University of Colorado)
- Laughing to Keep from Dying: Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show by Vincent Brook (UCLA, USC, Cal-State LA, and Pierce College)
- Ethnic Humour and Ethnic Politics in the Netherlands at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The Rules and Attraction of Clandestine Humour by Giselinde Kuipers (University of Amsterdam)
- The Tongues of Mocking Wenches: Humour and Gender in Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction by Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University)
List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

KesselMartina:
Martina Kessel is a professor in the Faculty of History, Philosophy, and Theology at the University of Bielefeld.MerzigerPatrick:
Patrick Merziger is a research associate in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Free University of Berlin.