American Cornball e-bog
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American Cornball is Christopher Miller's irresistibly funny illustrated survey of popular humorthe topics that used to make us laugh, from hiccups and henpecked-husbands to outhouses and old maidsand what it tells us about our country yesterday and today.Miller revisits nearly 200 comic staples that have been passed down through our culture for generations, many originating from the vaudeville...
E-bog
90,41 DKK
Forlag
Harper
Udgivet
23 september 2014
Længde
544 sider
Genrer
Comedy and stand-up
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062225191
American Cornball is Christopher Miller's irresistibly funny illustrated survey of popular humorthe topics that used to make us laugh, from hiccups and henpecked-husbands to outhouses and old maidsand what it tells us about our country yesterday and today.Miller revisits nearly 200 comic staples that have been passed down through our culture for generations, many originating from the vaudeville age. He explores the (often unseemly) contexts from which they arose, why they were funny in their time, and why they eventually lost their appeal. The result is a kind of taxonomy of humor during America's golden age that provides a deeper, more profound look at the prejudices, preoccupations, and peculiarities of a nation polarized between urban and rural, black and white, highborn and lowbrow.As he touches on issues of racism and sexism, cultural stereotypes and violence, Miller reveals how dramatically our moral sensibilities have shifted, most notably in the last few decades. Complete with more than 100 period illustrations, American Cornball is a richly entertaining survey of our shifting comic universe.