No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)

David Bindman & Adrian W. B. Randolph Angela Rosenthal

ISBN 10: 1611688213 / ISBN 13: 9781611688214

Published by Dartmouth College Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
• Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611688213
• ISBN 13: 9781611688214
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection―which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor―seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark’s Muhammad cartoons controversy, the contributors inquire into the role that racial and ethnic stereotypes play in visual humor and the thin line that separates broad characterization as a source of humor from its power to shock or exploit. The authors investigate the ways in which humor is used to demean or give identity to racial, national, or ethnic groups and explore how humor works differently in different media, such as cartoons, photographs, film, video, television, and physical performance. This is a timely and necessary study that will appeal to scholars across disciplines.

About the Author

David Bindman is the Emeritus Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art, University College London, and a fellow of the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. He is the author or editor of many books including Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century, also published by Reaktion Books.