TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gournelos,Ted
AU  - Greene,Viveca
TI  - A decade of dark humor: how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America 
SN  - 1617030066
AV  - E902 .D423 2011
U1  - 973.931 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Jackson
PB  - University Press of Mississippi
KW  - Political culture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
KW  - Influence
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Political satire, American
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2001-2009
KW  - Humor
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: popular culture and post 9-11 politics / Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene -- First responders. Everything changes forever (temporarily): late-night television comedy after 9-11 / David Gurney -- "Where was King Kong when we needed him?": public discourse, digital disaster jokes, and the functions of laughter after 9-11 / Giselinde Kuipers -- The Arab is the new nigger: African American comics confront the irony & tragedy of 9-11 / Lanita Jacobs -- Humor, terror, and dissent: The onion after 9-11 / Jamie Warner -- Enter the "war on terror." Laughs, tears, and breakfast cereals: rethinking trauma and post 9-11 politics in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Ted Gournelos -- Republican decline and culture wars in 9-11 humor / David Holloway -- Critique, counternarratives, and ironic intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert / Viveca Greene -- Humoring 9/11 skepticism / Michael Truscello -- Rethinking post-9/11 politics. Laughing doves: U.S. antiwar satire from Niagara to Fallujah / Aaron Winter -- Hummer rhymes with dumber: neoliberalism, irony, and the cartoons of Jeff Danziger / David Monje -- Laughing all the way to the bank: Enron, humor, and political economy / Gavin Benke -- What's so funny about a dead terrorist?: toward an ethics of humor for the digital age / Paul Lewis -- Coda: humor, pedagogy, and cultural studies / Arthur Asa Berger
ER  -