Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781349955220)

1.Taboo Comedy on Television: Issues and Themes. Chiara Bucaria and Luca Barra.- Part I.Controversial Humour in Comedy and Drama Series.- 2.The Rise and Fall of Taboo Comedy in the BBC. Christie Davies.- 3.The Last Laugh: Dark Comedy in U.S. Television. Kristen A. Murray.- 4.'This Is Great, We're Like Slave Buddies!': Cross-Racial Appropriation in 'Post-Racial' TV Comedies. Carter Soles.- 5.Phrasing!: Archer, Taboo Humor and Psychocanalytic Media Theory. Matt Sienkiewicz.- 6.Taboo Humanity: Paradoxes of Humanizing Muslims in North-American Sitcoms. Kyle Conway.- Part II. Controversial Humour in Variety Shows, Commercials and Factual Programming.- 7.Dummies and Demographics: Islamophobia as Market Differentiation in Post-9/11 Television Comedy. Phil Scepanski.- 8.Excessive Stand-Up, the Culture Wars, and '90s TV. Evan Elkins.- 9.Tosh.0, Convergence Comedy, and the 'Post-PC' TV Trickster. Ethan Thompson.- 10.Crude and Taboo Humour in Television Advertising: An Analysis of Commercials for Consumer Goods. Elsa Sims Lucas Freitas.- 11.Filthy Viewing, Dirty Laughter. Delia Chiaro.- 12.A Special Freedom: Regulating Comedy Offence. Brett Mills


Author: Chiara Bucaria
ISBN-10: 1349955221
ISBN-13: 9781349955220
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2018
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.52d