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No Laughing Matter - Visual Humor in Ideas of Race Nationality, and Ethnicity
Angela Rosenthal (Ed.)
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Description for No Laughing Matter - Visual Humor in Ideas of Race Nationality, and Ethnicity
Paperback. The role of race and ethnicity in global humor Editor(s): Rosenthal, Angela; Bindman, David; Randolph, Adrian W. B. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: AB; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection - which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor - seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark's Muhammad cartoons controversy, the contributors inquire into the role that racial and ethnic stereotypes play in visual humor and the thin line that separates broad characterization as a source of humor from its power to shock or exploit. The authors investigate the ways in which humor is used to demean or give identity to racial, national, or ethnic groups and explore how humor works differently in different media, such as cartoons, photographs, film, video, television, and physical performance. This is a timely and necessary study that will appeal to scholars across disciplines.
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
578g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9781611688214
SKU
V9781611688214
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About Angela Rosenthal (Ed.)
ANGELA ROSENTHAL was a professor of art history at Dartmouth College. ADRIAN W. B. RANDOLPH is the Leon E. Williams Professor of Art History at Dartmouth. DAVID BINDMAN is emeritus professor of the history of art at University College London.
Reviews for No Laughing Matter - Visual Humor in Ideas of Race Nationality, and Ethnicity
The scholarship in this volume is superior across the board and a much-needed contribution to the field of race and representation in Western art. Approaching the issues of race and stereotype from another angle, that of humor, these essays help us expand our thinking about power, resistance, and ambivalence, complicating already complicated discourse on identity.
Adrienne Childs, WE.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University An important contribution to discourses of power and identity. . . . Highly recommended.
Adrienne Childs, WE.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University Choice The essays in . . . this outstanding collection focus on selected works of art that characterize racial, ethnic or gender stereotypes within a culture.
Adrienne Childs, WE.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University ARLIS/NA No Laughing Matter is a complex and sophisticated book that adds a new critical layer to the field of race and representation in art history. Each essay includes numerous images allowing the reader to fully appreciate the range of visual material related to the subject of humor. No Laughing Matter will certainly initiate rich discussions on the myriad ways visual humor invades our social lives and cultural interactions, because humor is at the crux of how we have constructed identities, communities, and nationhood in the past and how we continue to do so in the present.
Adrienne Childs, WE.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University CAA Reviews
Adrienne Childs, WE.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University An important contribution to discourses of power and identity. . . . Highly recommended.
Adrienne Childs, WE.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University Choice The essays in . . . this outstanding collection focus on selected works of art that characterize racial, ethnic or gender stereotypes within a culture.
Adrienne Childs, WE.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University ARLIS/NA No Laughing Matter is a complex and sophisticated book that adds a new critical layer to the field of race and representation in art history. Each essay includes numerous images allowing the reader to fully appreciate the range of visual material related to the subject of humor. No Laughing Matter will certainly initiate rich discussions on the myriad ways visual humor invades our social lives and cultural interactions, because humor is at the crux of how we have constructed identities, communities, and nationhood in the past and how we continue to do so in the present.
Adrienne Childs, WE.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University CAA Reviews