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In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefs―they challenge myths about how fair and democratic our society is and the behaviors and practices we enact to maintain those fictions. Jokes loaded with vitriol and delivered with verve, charged humor compels audiences to action, artfully summoning political critique. Si...

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Book Reviews 109 All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents. By Rebecca Krefting. Baltimore: Johns hopkins University Press, 2014. 346 pp.

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Rebecca Krefting All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents Language: English Pages: 360 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (June 20, 2014)

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Her recently published monograph titled: All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014) charts the history and economy of charged humor ...

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