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Author: Laura E. Little
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0190625767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Guilty Pleasures, legal scholar Laura Little provides a multi-faceted account of American law and humor, looking at constraints on humor (and humor's effect on law), humor about law, and humor in law.
Author: Giuseppe Rossi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-10-04
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 3111286770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite their inherent seriousness, the law and those who practice it, be it lawyers, judges, politicians, or bureaucrats, are amongst the most popular objects of comedy and humour. Sometimes even the mention of the law, or the mere use of legal vocabulary, can trigger laughter. This is deeply counterintuitive, but true across cultures and historical eras: while the law is there to prevent and remedy injustice, it often ends up becoming the butt of comedy. But laughter and comedy, too, are also infused with seriousness: as universal social phenomena, they are extremely complex objects of study. This book maps out the many intersections of the law and laughter, from classical Greece to the present day. Taking on well-known classical and modern works of literature and visual culture, from Aristophanes to Laurel and Hardy and from Nietzsche to Totò and Fernandel, laughter and comedy bring law back to the complexity of human soul and the unpredictability of life.
Author: Giuseppe Rossi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-11-13
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 3111287769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite their inherent seriousness, the law and those who practice it, be it lawyers, judges, politicians, or bureaucrats, are amongst the most popular objects of comedy and humour. Sometimes even the mention of the law, or the mere use of legal vocabulary, can trigger laughter. This is deeply counterintuitive, but true across cultures and historical eras: while the law is there to prevent and remedy injustice, it often ends up becoming the butt of comedy. But laughter and comedy, too, are also infused with seriousness: as universal social phenomena, they are extremely complex objects of study. This book maps out the many intersections of the law and laughter, from classical Greece to the present day. Taking on well-known classical and modern works of literature and visual culture, from Aristophanes to Laurel and Hardy and from Nietzsche to Totò and Fernandel, laughter and comedy bring law back to the complexity of human soul and the unpredictability of life.
Author: Jon Taylor
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Caty Borum Chattoo
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2020-03-24
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0520299760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComedy is a powerful contemporary source of influence and information. In the still-evolving digital era, the opportunity to consume and share comedy has never been as available. And yet, despite its vast cultural imprint, comedy is a little-understood vehicle for serious public engagement in urgent social justice issues – even though humor offers frames of hope and optimism that can encourage participation in social problems. Moreover, in the midst of a merger of entertainment and news in the contemporary information ecology, and a decline in perceptions of trust in government and traditional media institutions, comedy may be a unique force for change in pressing social justice challenges. Comedians who say something serious about the world while they make us laugh are capable of mobilizing the masses, focusing a critical lens on injustices, and injecting hope and optimism into seemingly hopeless problems. By combining communication and social justice frameworks with contemporary comedy examples, authors Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman show us how comedy can help to serve as a vehicle of change. Through rich case studies, audience research, and interviews with comedians and social justice leaders and strategists, A Comedian and an Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice explains how comedy – both in the entertainment marketplace and as cultural strategy – can engage audiences with issues such as global poverty, climate change, immigration, and sexual assault, and how activists work with comedy to reach and empower publics in the networked, participatory digital media age.
Author: Jonathan Lynn
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-08-18
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0571277977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJonathan Lynn's credits include creating and co-writing the long-running comedy series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, as well as hit films Clue, My Cousin Vinny, Nuns on the Run and The Whole Nine Yards. With experience as a comedy actor, writer and director, here Jonathan Lynn shares valuable and hilarious lessons in all aspects of creating great comedy, all illustrated with brilliantly insightful and revealing anecdotes about his work and the legedary actors, writers and comedians he's worked alongside.
Author: John Kachuba
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Published: 2001-07-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA discussion of the basics and genres of the comic point of view includes essays and interviews with such authors as Dave Barry, Sherman Alexie, and Melissa Bank.
Author: Ian Frazier
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0374603081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDispatches from the front lines of American culture by the great humorist Ian Frazier, “America’s greatest essayist” (Los Angeles Times), has gathered his insights on the most urgent issues of today in Cranial Fracking. From climate change (what did Al Gore say at his colloquium on the rising temperatures in Hell?) to the state of culture (what do you do when you’re afflicted with Loss of Funding?) to Texas (what should we do with Texas?), he has all the answers. Or, at the very least, a lot of questions. Frazier is endlessly curious and perpetually delighted, and seeing the absurdity of the world through his eyes is irresistible. Once more, the author of Hogs Wild and Travels in Siberia has struck oil.
Author: Dan O'Shannon
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-07-05
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1441162933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a comprehensive guide to all the variables that can come into play when we come into contact with comedy.
Author: Milton Nobles
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2018-02-19
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781378036051
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