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'Totalitarian Humour'? National Socialist Propaganda and Active Audiences in Entertainment
History Workshop Journal, 2015What are the dynamics of communication in authoritarian systems and dictatorships? For a long time historians were drawn to simple models of stimulus and response: the dictator speaks and the people react. But in recent years, it has been repeatedly pointed out that propaganda, like any form of communication, runs in two directions.
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2021
From the seemingly mundane jokes about everyday life in lockdown to the viral video of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa struggling to put on his mask correctly, there was never a dull moment on Twitter during the lockdown period. Indeed, the comic relief was no doubt a welcome diversion amidst the stringent stay-at-home rules of the hitherto ...
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From the seemingly mundane jokes about everyday life in lockdown to the viral video of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa struggling to put on his mask correctly, there was never a dull moment on Twitter during the lockdown period. Indeed, the comic relief was no doubt a welcome diversion amidst the stringent stay-at-home rules of the hitherto ...
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Raising Minstrelsy: Humour, Satire and the Stereotype in The Birth of a Nation and Bamboozled
Canadian Review of American Studies, 2003How much does blackface minstrelsy – the first form of American mass culture – share in modern depictions of blackness in popular television and cinema? What (if anything) can be done about the form’s disturbing legacy? Scholarly criticism over the past decade has grappled with these questions to uncertain effect and with limited success, sometimes ...
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International Journal of Psychology, 2019
The State–Trait Cheerfulness Inventory–trait version (STCI‐T60) consists of three dimensions of cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood integrated to measure the temperamental basis of the sense of humour. The present study replicated the three‐dimensional factor structure of the STCI in China using 60 items consistent with other standard trait ...
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The State–Trait Cheerfulness Inventory–trait version (STCI‐T60) consists of three dimensions of cheerfulness, seriousness, and bad mood integrated to measure the temperamental basis of the sense of humour. The present study replicated the three‐dimensional factor structure of the STCI in China using 60 items consistent with other standard trait ...
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Chapter 10. Humour and… Stalin in a National Theatre of Greece postmodern production
2011This study focuses on the function of humour in a postmodern performance which explored Stalinism as a paradigm of power politics and suggested that Stalinism is comparable to Modern Greek theatre. The performance suggests that non-conformist art can be denied acceptance and/or success and that both Stalinism and Modern Greek theatre are powerful ...
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Ethnicities, 2018
This article investigates the ways that the ostensible humour associated with contemporary blackface incidents in Canada is constituted. It argues that the conditions of possibility for contemporary Canadian blackface humour are an anti-black libidinal economy dependent upon the tropes of biological racism, and a socially embedded, psychic association
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This article investigates the ways that the ostensible humour associated with contemporary blackface incidents in Canada is constituted. It argues that the conditions of possibility for contemporary Canadian blackface humour are an anti-black libidinal economy dependent upon the tropes of biological racism, and a socially embedded, psychic association
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4 Dissident Laughter: Diaries of National Struggles and the Aesthetics of Humour
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