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Author : Patrick Giamario
Release : 2022
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 549/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Laughter as Politics by : Patrick Giamario
Download or read book Laughter as Politics written by Patrick Giamario. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life
Author : Shepherd Mpofu
Release : 2022-11-18
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 712/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age by : Shepherd Mpofu
Download or read book The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age written by Shepherd Mpofu. This book was released on 2022-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from the Global South brings to critical and intellectual attention the role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume demonstrate, have empowered these citizens through engagement with power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future. Contributors to the volume, while alive to challenges associated with the digital divide, highlight the potentials of social media and humour to engage and seek redress on issues such as corruption, human rights violations, racism and sexism. Contributors expertly analyse memes, videos, cartoons and other social media texts to demonstrate how citizens mimic, disrupt, ridicule and challenge status quo. This book caters for academics and students in media and communication studies, political studies, sociology and Global South studies.
Author : Patrick Giamario
Release : 2023-11-30
Genre :
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Book Rating : 556/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Laughter as Politics by : Patrick Giamario
Download or read book Laughter as Politics written by Patrick Giamario. This book was released on 2023-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political life
Author : Neringa Klumbytė
Release : 2022-12-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 708/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Authoritarian Laughter by : Neringa Klumbytė
Download or read book Authoritarian Laughter written by Neringa Klumbytė. This book was released on 2022-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. Artists, writers, and journalists were required to create state-sponsored Soviet humor and serve the Communist Party after Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Neringa Klumbytė investigates official attempts to shape citizens into Soviet subjects and engage them through a culture of popular humor. Broom was multidirectional—it both facilitated Communist Party agendas and expressed opposition toward the Soviet regime. Official satire and humor in Soviet Lithuania increasingly created dystopian visions of Soviet modernity and were a forum for critical ideas and nationalist sentiments that were mobilized in anti-Soviet revolutionary laughter in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Authoritarian Laughter illustrates that Soviet Western peripheries were unstable and their governance was limited. While authoritarian states engage in a statecraft of the everyday and seek to engineer intimate lives, authoritarianism is defied not only in revolutions, but in the many stories people tell each other about themselves in jokes, cartoons, and satires.
Author : Gregory H. Williams
Release : 2012-06-12
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 954/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Permission to Laugh by : Gregory H. Williams
Download or read book Permission to Laugh written by Gregory H. Williams. This book was released on 2012-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Permission to Laugh explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history. Gregory H. Williams highlights six of them—Martin Kippenberger, Isa Genzken, Rosemarie Trockel, Albert Oehlen, Georg Herold, and Werner Büttner—who came of age in the mid-1970s in the art scenes of West Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. Williams argues that each employed a distinctive brand of humor that responded to the period of political apathy that followed a decade of intense political ferment in West Germany. Situating these artists between the politically motivated art of 1960s West Germany and the trends that followed German unification in 1990, Williams describes how they no longer heeded calls for a brighter future, turning to jokes, anecdotes, and linguistic play in their work instead of overt political messages. He reveals that behind these practices is a profound loss of faith in the belief that art has the force to promulgate political change, and humor enabled artists to register this changed perspective while still supporting isolated instances of critical social commentary. Providing a much-needed examination of the development of postmodernism in Germany, Permission to Laugh will appeal to scholars, curators, and critics invested in modern and contemporary German art, as well as fans of these internationally renowned artists.
