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Because I tell a joke or two : comedy, politics, and social difference
- Title
- Because I tell a joke or two : comedy, politics, and social difference / edited by Stephen Wagg.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Wagg, Stephen.
- Description
- xiv, 322 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Stephen Wagg -- 1. 'At Ease, Corporal': Social class and the situation comedy in British television, from the 1950s to the 1990s / Stephen Wagg -- 2. The Lancashire Shaman: Frank Randle and Mancunian Films / C. P. Lee -- 3. Butterflies and Caustic Asides: Housewives, comedy and the feminist movement / Maggie Andrews -- 4. Tarts, Tampons and Tyrants: Women and representation in British comedy / Laraine Porter -- 5. Certain Liberties Have Been Taken with Cleopatra: Female performance in the Carry On films / Frances Gray -- 6. Punching Your Weight: Conversations with Jo Brand / Stephen Wagg -- 7. The Straight Men of Comedy / Mark Simpson -- 8. Suits and Sequins: Lesbian comedians in Britain and the US in the 1990s / Frances Williams -- 9. 'Yeah, and I Used to be a Hunchback': Immigrants, humour and the Marx Brothers / C. P. Lee -- 10. 'Where Everybody Knows Your Name': Open convictions and closed contexts in the American situation comedy / Paul Wells --
- 11. Cringe and Strut: Comedy and national identity in post-war Australia / John McCallum -- 12. 'Serious T'ing': The black comedy circuit in England / Stephen Small -- 13. 'They Already Got a Comedian for Governor': Comedians and politics in the United States and Great Britain / Stephen Wagg -- 14. VIZ: Gender, class and taboo / Dave Huxley -- 15. Heard the One About the White Middle-Class Heterosexual Father-in-Law?: Gender, ethnicity and political correctness in comedy / Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering.
- ISBN
- 0415129206 (hbk.)
- 0415129214 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 97023653
- OCLC
- 37024218
- ocm37024218
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries