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Kembrew McLeod - Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World - 9780814796290 - V9780814796290
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Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World

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Description for Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World Hardcover. Profiling the most notorious mischief makers from the 1600s to the present day, this book explores how "pranks" are part of a long tradition of speaking truth to power and social critique. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.

From Benjamin
Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffman’s
attempt to levitate the Pentagon, pranksters, hoaxers, and con artists have caused
confusion, disorder, and laughter in Western society for centuries. Profiling
the most notorious mischief makers from the 1600s to the present day, Pranksters
explores how “pranks” are part of a long tradition of speaking truth to power
and social critique.
Invoking such historical and contemporary figures as P.T. Barnum,
Jonathan Swift, WITCH, The Yes Men, and Stephen Colbert, Kembrew McLeod shows
how staged spectacles ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814796290
SKU
V9780814796290
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Kembrew McLeod
Kembrew McLeod is a writer, filmmaker, and Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa, and occasional prankster. He is the author of Creative License, Cutting Across Media, Owning Culture, and the award-winning Freedom of Expression®. McLeod’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, and Rolling Stone.

Reviews for Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World
McLeod is good at finding common threads that unite all the multifarious pranks together and making sense of what may seem like a tangled mess of characters and events . . . . The heady stew of the 1960sincluding the Merry Pranksters, and Abbie Hoffman and the Yippiesserves as an object lesson on pranks and how they could interface with ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World


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