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The humor prism in 20th-century America / edited by Joseph Boskin.
- Title
- The humor prism in 20th-century America / edited by Joseph Boskin.
- Publication
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E169.02 .H83 1997 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Boskin, Joseph.
- Description
- 268 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Humor in life and letters series
- Uniform Title
- Humor in life and letters.
- Alternative Title
- Humor prism in twentieth-century America
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-268).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Introduction. History and humor -- What makes people laugh?: cracking the cultural code.
- Pt. 2. The contours of American laughter. The great American joke -- Our native humor -- Entropy and transformation: two types of American humor -- American political humor: touchables and taboos -- The standup comedian as anthropologist: intentional culture critic.
- Pt. 3. Multicultural spaces. The urban landscape -- Saloons and burlesques -- The people of the joke: on the conceptualization of a Jewish humor -- African-American humor: resistance and retaliation -- Why are these women laughing? the power and politics of women's humor -- A rose by any other name... the occasional Doo-Dah Parade.
- Events and script. 1950s-1960s: sick and elephant -- 1960s: Helen Keller -- 1950s-1980s: Polish -- 1970s-1980s: Jewish American Princess (J.A.P.) -- 1970s-1980s: light bulb -- 1980s-1990s: disaster.
- ISBN
- 0814325971 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^97015521^
- OCLC
- 36884366
- SCSB-11621737
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library