A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age (The Cultural Histories Series)

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nCONTENTS\nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\nCONTRIBUTORS\nSERIES PREFACE\nIntroduction\n	FORM\n	EARLY FILM\n	THEATER\n	RADIO\n	TELEVISION\nCHAPTER ONE Form BRETT MILLS\n	INTRODUCTION\n	FILM\n	RADIO\n	TELEVISION\n	THE INTERNET\n	COMIC FORM\nCHAPTER TWO Theory PETER BUSE\n	INTRODUCTION\n	RITUAL, HOLIDAY, MYTHOS\n	BAKHTIN AND AFTER: CARNIVAL, THE BODY, THE COMIC HERO\n	COMIC POLITICS\n	PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS\n	FINALLY . . .\nCHAPTER THREE Praxis “If You Laugh at Something, Then I’ll Potentially Keep It”: The Praxis of Live Comedy\n	MATERIAL\n	REHEARSAL\n	PERFORMANCE\n	WORKING HARD\nCHAPTER FOUR Identity Laughs Last—Gender, Power, and Comic Identity\n	FUNCTIONS AND THEORIES OF HUMOR\n	COMIC PERSONAE AND AUDIENCE PERCEPTION\n	AMY SCHUMER AS A NEW BAWD\n	THE MARGINAL PERFORMANCE OF WANDA SYKES\n	GENDER AND POWER IN POPULAR SITCOMS\n	SEXIST OR SUBVERSIVE? THE BIG BANG THEORY\n	HOW MODERN IS MODERN FAMILY ?\n	CONCLUSION\nCHAPTER FIVE The Body LOUISE PEACOCK\n	CONCLUSION\nCHAPTER SIX Politics and Power CHRIS VOGNAR\nCHAPTER SEVEN Laughter ERIC WEITZ\n	THE VIEW FROM MARS\n	TOWARD A STATE OF PLAY IN RESEARCH AND THOUGHT ON LAUGHTER\n	THE FUNCTION AND PURPOSE OF LAUGHTER IN SOCIETY\n	TWENTIETH-CENTURY LAUGHTERS\n	LAUGHTER AND PERFORMANCE\n	PERFORMED LAUGHTER\n	LAUGHTER AND DIGITAL CULTURE\n	IN PLACE OF A CONCLUSION\nCHAPTER EIGHT Ethics MICHAEL PICKERING\n	INTRODUCTION\n	POLITICAL (IN)CORRECTNESS GONE MAD\n	STEREOTYPES IN HUMOR AND COMEDY\n	CONCLUSION\nNOTES\nREFERENCES\nINDEX