Beyond a Joke
Subtitle: the Limits of Humour
By: Sharon Lockyer ; Michael Pickering
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London/Basingstoke
Language: und
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780230594500
Description: Humour in contemporary culture is generally celebrated as a public good, yet at times is felt to produce misunderstanding and even hatred. This collection explores the ethics and aesthetics of humour, in everyday life and in media comedy.
Table of contents: title: Notes on Contributors; Introduction:Permission to Mock; J. Palmer; Breaking the Mould: Conversations with Omid Djalili and Shazia Mirza; S. Lockyer & M. Pickering; Merry Hell: Humour Competence and Social Incompetence; K. Willis; Privacy, Embarrassment and Social Power: British Sitcom; F. Gray; Comedies of Sexual Morality and Female Singlehood; D. Chambers; The Ambiguities of Comic Impersonation; M. Pickering & S. Lockyer; Bibliography; Index / The Ethics and Aesthetics of Humour and Comedy; S. Lockyer & M. Pickering; Comic Racism and Violence; M. Billing; Race and Ethnicity in Popular Humour; D. Howitt & K. Owusu-Bempah; Humour and the Conduct of Politics; J. Morreall; Parody and Decorum.