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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