Taking Comedy Seriously: Stand-Up'S Dissident Potential In Mass Culture (Politics And Comedy: Critical Encounters)

This book contextualizes contemporary stand-up comedy within the wider socio-political terrain of neoliberal capitalism, contributing to a more complex and developed understanding of the relation of jokes and humor to the unconscious mind in its relation to ideology and discourse.

• | Author: Jennalee Donian
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Dec 31, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 162 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1498587658
• | ISBN-13: 9781498587655