The Politics of Humour : : Laughter, Inclusion and Exclusion in the Twentieth Century /

The Politics of Humour : : Laughter, Inclusion and Exclusion in the Twentieth Century / / Martina Kessel, Patrick Merziger.

The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes-while this era witnessed unprecedented violence and loss of human life, it also saw a surge in humorous entertainment in both democratic and authoritarian societies. The Politics of H...

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VerfasserIn:
Kessel, Martina,
Merziger, Patrick ,
MitwirkendeR:
Brook, Vincent,
Gillooly, Eileen,
Jelavich, Peter,
Kessel, Martina,
Kuipers, Giselinde,
Merziger, Patrick,
Pater, Monika,
Winokur, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2011
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:German and European Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Landscapes of Humour: The History and Politics of the Comical in the Twentieth Century
  • 1. When Are Jewish Jokes No Longer Funny? Ethnic Humour in Imperial and Republican Berlin
  • 2. Creole Cartoons
  • 3. Talking War, Debating Unity: Order, Conflict, and Exclusion in 'German Humour' in the First World War
  • 4. Producing a Cheerful Public: Light Radio Entertainment during National Socialism
  • 5. Humour in the Volksgemeinschaft: The Disappearance of Destructive Satire in National Socialist Germany
  • 6. Laughing to Keep from Dying: Jewish Self-Hatred and The Larry Sanders Show
  • 7. Ethnic Humour and Ethnic Politics in the Netherlands: The Rules and Attraction of Clandestine Humour
  • 8. 'The Tongues of Mocking Wenches': Humour and Gender in Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction
  • Contributors

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