As the saying goes, "Comedy equals tragedy plus time," but in the face of tragedies on a national scale, comedy becomes the medium through which audiences untangle accepted understandings of what it means to be American.
As the saying goes, "Comedy equals tragedy plus time," but in the face of tragedies on a national scale, comedy becomes the medium through which audiences untangle accepted understandings of what it means to be American.
Philip Scepanski is an assistant professor of film and television at Marist College. He holds a PhD in media studies from Northwestern University. His work has appeared in the journals Television and New Media and Studies in American Humor, as well as edited collections, including How to Watch Television; The Comedy Studies Reader; Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humor; The Dark Side of Stand-Up; Taking a Stand: Contemporary Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals; and Exploring the Edges of Trauma: 150 Years of Art and Literature. He has also taught at Vassar College, Northwestern University, and the University of Notre Dame.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Broadcast Nationalism, National Trauma, and Television Comedy Chapter 1: The Kennedy Assassination and the Growth of Sick Humor on American Television Chapter 2: Censored Comedies and Comedies of Censorship Chapter 3: Emotional Nonconformity in Comedy Chapter 4: Conspiracy Theories and Comedy Chapter 5: African American Comedies and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots Chapter 6: Television Comedy and Islamophobia after 9/11 Chapter 7: Comedy and Trump as Trauma in Narrowcast America Conclusion Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Broadcast Nationalism, National Trauma, and Television Comedy Chapter 1: The Kennedy Assassination and the Growth of Sick Humor on American Television Chapter 2: Censored Comedies and Comedies of Censorship Chapter 3: Emotional Nonconformity in Comedy Chapter 4: Conspiracy Theories and Comedy Chapter 5: African American Comedies and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots Chapter 6: Television Comedy and Islamophobia after 9/11 Chapter 7: Comedy and Trump as Trauma in Narrowcast America Conclusion Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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