What's so funny? : humor in American culture
Presents studies attempting to define and dissect American humor for students and scholars.
Print Book, English, ©1998
Scholarly Resources Inc., Wilmington, Del., ©1998
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
9780842026871, 9780842026888, 0842026878, 0842026886
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American humorists in 1882 / H.R. Haweis
The Yankee / Constance Rourke
The requisites for American humor / Walter Blair
The great American joke / Louis D. Rubin, Jr
No end of jokes / Walter Blair and Hamlin Hill
The violence of American humor / William Keough
Urban legends / Jan Harold Brunvand
Southern humor / Roy Blount, Jr
Women's humor in America / Nancy A. Walker and Zita Dressner
Comics as culture / M. Thomas Inge
Stand-up comedy as social and cultural mediation / Lawrence E. Mintz
Ethnic humor: subversion and survival / Joseph Boskin and Joseph Dorinson
Comic films / Gerald Mast
Television comedy / David Marc
Ideology in the television situation comedy / Lawrence E. Mintz
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