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Author Krefting, Rebecca, 1978-

Title All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / Rebecca Krefting.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (346 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: American humor and its discontents -- Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor -- Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor -- Laughing into the new millennium -- When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption -- Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd' -- Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes -- Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy -- Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh.
Note Print version record.
Subject Stand-up comedy -- United States.
Comedy -- History and criticism.
Participatory theater.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Comedy. (OCoLC)fst00869083
Participatory theater. (OCoLC)fst01054039
Stand-up comedy. (OCoLC)fst01131440
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Krefting, Rebecca, 1978- All joking aside 9781421414294 (DLC) 2013045490 (OCoLC)868298563
ISBN 9781421414317 (electronic bk.)
1421414317 (electronic bk.)
1421414317 (electronic)
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