Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour by Bucaria, Chiara

Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137593375)

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Format: Hardcover
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Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour by Bucaria, Chiara

Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour

$119.99
Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour by Bucaria, Chiara

Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour

$119.99
Format: Hardcover
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The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted forms, such as sitcoms, and non-scripted forms, such as stand-up comedy. Whilst the focus of this book is predominantly on the US and UK, authors also address more general and global issues, along with different contexts of reception, in an attempt to look at this kind of comedy from different perspectives. Diverse examples of humour on both network and cable television, from TV series and reality shows to advertising, are considered. Over the last few decades, taboo comedy has become a staple of television programming, thus giving rise to questions concerning its function and appropriateness, and making it an extremely relevant subject for those interested in how both humour and television work.

Author: Chiara Bucaria
ISBN-10: 1137593377
ISBN-13: 9781137593375
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2016
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Chiara Bucaria
By Chiara Bucaria
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Chiara Bucaria is Associate Professor in English Language and Translation at the Department of Interpretation and Translation of the University of Bologna, Italy. Her main research interests include the translation of audiovisual products, censorship and textual manipulation, and dark humour. Chiara Bucaria was the recipient of the International Society for Humor Studies' Emerging Scholar Award in 2006.

Luca Barra is Lecturer in Television and Media Studies at the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna, Italy. His research mainly focuses on television production and distribution cultures, comedy and humour TV genres, the international circulation of media products (and their national mediations), the history of Italian television, and the evolution of the contemporary media landscape."

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