Taking Comedy Seriously
Subtitle: Stand-Up's Dissident Potential in Mass Culture
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781498587655
Subjects: Stand-up comedy
Description: "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"--