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  • The Joke Is on Us

    Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times

    by Julie A. Webber, James Brassett, Marc-Olivier Castagner, Seçil Dagtas, Jessyka Finley, Viveca Greene, David Grondin, Thomas Lawson, Sophia McClennen, Aaron McKain0, Diane Rubenstein1, Don Waisanen2, Simon Weaver3, Rebecca Krefting4 ...
    Series series Politics and Comedy: Critical Encounters
    This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet categories such as comedy, horror, drama and news and entertainment have become blurred so as to be ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • A Decade of Dark Humor

    How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America

    Edited by Ted Gournelos, Viveca Greene ...
    A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humor and irony on both media discourse and tangible political reality. Furthermore, it demonstrates that ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Decade of Dark Humor

    How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America

    Edited by Ted Gournelos, Viveca Greene ...
    A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humor and irony on both media discourse and tangible political reality. Furthermore, it demonstrates that ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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    The Logic of Misogyny

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    Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Elements of Journalism

    What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

    by Tom Rosenstiel, Bill Kovach ...
    In July 1997, twenty-five of America's most influential journalists sat down to try and discover what had happened to their profession in the years between Watergate and Whitewater. What they knew was that the public no longer trusted the press as it once had. They were keenly aware of the pressures that advertisers and new technologies were putting on newsrooms around the country. But, more than ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Deconstructing Obama

    The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President

    by Jack Cashill ...
    Did Obama write his own books and is the story they tell true?“I've written two books,” Barack Obama told a crowd of teachers in July of 2008. “I actually wrote them myself.” The teachers exploded in laughter. They got the joke: lesser politicians were not bright enough to do the same. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama supporters pointed to the first of those two books, the 1995 memoir, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The New Thought Police

    Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds

    by Tammy Bruce ...
    Stop the Left from Policing Your MindOur freedom to speak our minds is under attack. Like the Thought Police of George Orwell's 1984, powerful special interest groups on the Left are mounting a withering assault on our rights in the name of "social equality." Liberty has been turned on its ear as the rights of the few restrict the freedom of everyone. In The New Thought Police, author Tammy Bruce, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Death of the Grown-Up

    How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization

    by Diana West ...
    A provocative look at the rise of youth culture, the worship of perpetual adolescence, and the sorry spectacle of adults shirking the responsibilities of maturity. Firebrand conservative columnist Diana West looks at the mess America is in and wonders "Where did all the grown-ups go?"Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Entertaining Politics

    Satiric Television and Political Engagement

    by Jeffrey P. Jones ...
    Series series Communication, Media, and Politics
    In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore's TV Nation and The Awful Truth. This volume investigates how and why these shows have been central ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Conspiracy Theories

    Secrecy and Power in American Culture

    by Mark Fenster ...
    JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton, both George Bushes—all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues. Two years after Mark Fenster first published Conspiracy Theories, the attacks of 9/11 stirred the imaginations of a new generation of believers. Before the black box from United 93 had even been found, there were ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Disposable Futures

    The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle

    by Henry A. Giroux, Brad Evans ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "This is a must-read book for anyone ready to transcend fear and imagine a new reality."--TikkunDisposable Futures makes the case that we have not just become desensitized to violence, but rather, that we are being taught to desire it.From movies and other commercial entertainment to "extreme" weather and acts of terror, authors Brad Evans and Henry Giroux examine how a contemporary politics of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrorist Assemblages

    Homonationalism in Queer Times

    by Jasbir K. Puar, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next wave
    In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, through developments including the legal recognition inherent in ... Read more

    $18.69 USD