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Given a dominant visual discourse predicated upon stereotypes concerning menace, sexualisation, and abjection, African American visual production is often obligated to effect a correction by producing responsible, even didactic art. While... more
We revisit Aristophanes’ charge against Socratic education in the Clouds and, placing that charge in its democratic context, propose that the play is equally critical of Socratic education as it is of democracy’s narrowly utilitarian... more
A revival of Coward's classic comedy, performed by the cast of BBC Radio 4's long-running soap The Archers.
A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema – which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon... more
What makes some jokes so funny? Can comedy really effect social change? Is laughter just catharsis—a therapeutic release of personal and social discontent—or can it also voice real opposition? Another basic question that we often take for... more
Didactic presentation of Molieres comedy.
Satires offer themselves to the audience in all kinds of forms: from novels to pamphlets, from cartoons to ritual performances, from learned wit to slanderous attacks. This was as much the case in early modern Europe as it is in... more
Teach Communication with a Sense of Humor (Curious Academic Publishing, 2021). 'My friends say I'm argumentative, but they're wrong, and here are three reasons why ...' Using humorous examples for teaching critical thinking and persuasive... more
In Spike Jonze’s Her (2013), we watch the film’s protagonist, Theodore, as he struggles with the end of his marriage and a growing attachment to his artificially intelligent operating system, Samantha. While the film remains unique in its... more
This paper explores gender in stand‐up comedy based on 20 months of ethnographic research in Finland and recent media discussion involving the booking of performers for a national comedy tour. As the vast majority of stand‐up comedians... more
Funniness, in its capacity to unify and divide, is inextricably tied to concerns of harm and redress, that is, to justice. John Rawls tells us that justice can best be envisioned and dealt by people who view a situation through a “veil of... more
This book addresses the motif of literary twinship from the Shakespearean age until today. Twins have all too often been discussed as mere footnotes to the allegedly more nuanced motif of the doppelganger, or as a kind of 'embarrassing'... more
In this essay, I examine this highly-personal, world shaping, and perhaps sometimes invisible potential for comedy to construct identities and relationships. Specifically, I examine laugh track use in two highly popular television... more
Comedy, which developed as a literary genre after tragedy, is a popular dramatic form in ancient Greek literature. In accordance with the periods of time through which it differs, comedy as a genre is divided into three types; Old Comedy,... more
Clase perteneciente a la asignatura Ficción Seriada Audiovisual y Multimedia en la que se muestra el nacimiento y evolución del género de la comedia seriada desde sus inicios hasta su salto a formatos online. Se repasa el mercado... more
Abstract In this article, I analyse the unexpected quarrels and strange new alliances that formed in response to the United States' decision to go to war against Iraq in the spring of 2003. Telling different stories about Iraq, about... more
Although mediated humor is pervasive in our media cultures, media studies have largely glossed over the role of technology in the process of making humor. This article brings that topic into focus, while examining the Machinima-related... more
This project will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, cultural studies, neuroscience, film and media studies) to investigate the experience of cringe as a key symptom of the contemporary cultural... more
An important challenge for communication scientists is to characterize and understand hybrid genres. Satirical news is such a hybrid genre and comprises a blend of the genres of comedy, news, and political opinion. This theoretical... more
Artykuł analizuje polsko-czechosłowacką koprodukcję filmową Zadzwońcie do mojej żony (Co řekne žena, 1958, r. Jaroslav Mach) w optyce produkcyjno-kulturowej. Zostaje w nim zarysowane tło metodologiczne umożliwiające badanie koprodukcji w... more
An exploration of the structure of several of Panych's plays and how it reveals a deeply existential perspective in his work.
This paper argues that Q1 is a distinct and good version of Shakespeare's play, not necessarily written for a garter ceremony, and not unpopular with audiences and readers, as it was reprinted in 1619. The fact that it is shorter and... more
For decades, the figure of the Aussie bogan has riveted and been ridiculed on screen, and at its heart lie scathing sentiments regarding class inferiority. Mel Campbell examines how, unlike the bogan comedies that have come before it, the... more
In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which... more
In the second half of the twentieth century, popular entertainers Jack Benny and Danny Kaye each raised over $6 million for orchestra pension funds, symphony halls, and music schools. They both used syncretic or physical humor, based on... more
A review of an episode of HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR with distinct Beckettian resonances.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first (rhetorical) investigation of Persian stand-up comedy. In the present research, a rhetorical approach is taken to examine humor styles and techniques used in seven stand-up performances.... more
Inspired by the growing attention to the politics of comedy in the United States and elsewhere, this paper asks what it would mean to think critically about relations of power mobilized through cheerfulness, humor, and laughter. The paper... more
Didactic presentation.
While much has been written about what democracies should look like, much less has been said about how to actually train citizens in democratic perspectives and skills. Amid the social and political crises of our time, many programs... more
While there is ample evidence that students in higher education benefit from an instructor’s judicious use of humor in lectures and teaching materials, there is less analysis available about the benefits to student critical thinking and... more
An exploration of the appeal of the comic hero who is conventionally either childish, neurotic, psychotic, or otherwise emasculated through an analysis of the comic performances of Buster Keaton, Jerry Lewis, and Woody Allen. Essay... more
Political theorists have traditionally grappled with laughter by posing a simple, normative question: 'What role, if any, should laughter play in the polis?'. However, the outsized presence of laughter in contemporary politics has... more