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Humor in America: A Research Guide to Genres and Topics
by Stephanie Koziski Olson, David E. E. Sloane, Wes D. Gehring, Joseph Dorinson, Stephen J. Whitfield, Nancy Pogel and Paul P. Somers, M. Thomas Inge, Lawrence E. Mintz, Zita Dresner
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- ISBN-13: 9780313245510
- ISBN: 0313245517
- Publication Date: 1988
- Publisher: Greenwood
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Focusing on a multitude of genres, this unusual collection stresses the overall importance of humor as an index to popular thought. Primarily descriptive rather than theoretical, each chapter is organized to provide an overview of a specific genre of expression or a significant topic in modern humor. Subjects range from literature, the comic strip, film, broadcast humor, the magazine, and standup comedy, to racial and ethnic humor, women's humor, and political humor. Each genre or topic is traced historically and analyzed with respect to those characteristics that make it unique. A bibliographical essay and checklist is provided for each chapter to facilitate further study.Stephanie Koziski Olson is the author of 'Humor in America: A Research Guide to Genres and Topics', published 1988 under ISBN 9780313245510 and ISBN 0313245517.
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