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List of contents
1. The Politics of Laughter. Arthur Asa Berger. 2. Puritanical and Politically Correct? A Critical Historical Account of Changes in the Censorship of Comedy by the BBC. Christie Davies. 3. The Status of Verbal Humour in British Society: Contextual Aspects of English Humour. Richard J. Alexander. 4. ‘Down with Skool!’: The Perspective of Youth in Contemporary Western Humour. Jessica Milner Davis. 5. Humour at Work and the Work of Humour. George E.C. Paton and Ivan L. Filby. 6. Laughing on the Other Side of your PACE? An Analysis of Cartoons Appearing in Police Review 1979-1993. Chris Powell. 7. Mixed Feelings: Ambivalence, Sexuality and Cartoon Humour. Ruth Waterhouse. 8. ‘It’s Only a Joke’: the Role of Humour in Mother-in-Law Relationships. Pamela Cotterill. 9. The Sick Disaster Joke as Carnivalesque Postmodern Narrative Impulse. Richard J. Ellis. 10. Laughter in its Place. Stephen Hester. 11. Laughter, Footing and the Tolerantial Self. Greg Smith. 12. Stepping into Wayne’s World: Exploring Postmodern Comedy. Jason Rutter. 13. Everything Else is Propaganda: the Politics of Alternative Comedy. Stephen Wagg.
About the author
George E. C. Paton is Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University. He is the co-editor of and contributor to Humour in Society: Resistance and Control (Macmillan, London, 1988); he was President and Co-Chair of the 1995 International Humour Conference held at Aston University, Birmingham. Chris Powell is Lecturer in Criminology and Social Theory at the University of Wales, Bangor. He is the co-editor of and contributor to Humour in Society: Resistance and Control (Macmillan, London, 1988) and author of a number of articles on social control. Stephen Wagg is a writer and part-time lecturer at Leicester University. He is co-editor, with Dominic Strinati, of Come on Down? Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain (Routledge, 1992) and editor of Because I Tell a Joke or Two: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference (Routledge, forthcoming). He also writes on sport and childhood.
Summary
First published in 1996, this volume is a sequel to Humour in Society: Resistance and Control which was edited by George E.C. Paton and Chris Powell.
