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No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour

European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2022
For such a complex cultural form, the politics of humour have historically been understood in highly reductive terms: either as an abstract political function (e.g. carnival or ridicule) or as a simple formal flourish that can be pressed into the service
Nicholas Holm
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Using world news to humour audiences in Mauritius: POV’s political cartoons through the lens of postcolonial translation theory

Critical African Studies
The humour of political cartoons is studied in multiple disciplines, and African political cartoons are no exception to academic scrutiny. Their satire, however, is prone to Western models of analysis.
Adeelah Kodabux
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Lalo Alcaraz: political humour across borders

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2015
Lalo Alcaraz’s work centres on the life of Latinos in the United States. The son of Mexican immigrants to the United States, he is well aware of the conflicts between Latinos and Anglos, the dominant English-speaking group, particularly in the domain of politics.
Agnes C M Ragone
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Studies in Political Humour

2011
If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics can be represented in a humorous manner and humour can have a serious intent. Political humour conveys criticism against the political status quo and/or recycles and reinforces dominant views on politics. The
V. Tsakona, Diana Elena Popa
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Humour and Politics in Africa:

2023
Humour and Politics in Africa provides an innovative analysis of the diversity and complexity of humour – and its political significance – across Africa. This political significance, the book argues, goes beyond the framing of humour-as-resistance. As the book explores, humour is used for – and does – a vast array of political work that may be viewed ...
Daniel Hammett, Laura S. Martin, Izuu Nwankwọ   +2 more
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Freedom and political humour

2013
Xueliang Ding
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The empirical effects of viewing right-leaning political humour: a modest first step

Comedy Studies
There is an almost complete dearth of empirical research that focuses on conservative political humour or its effects. This is primarily because until fairly recently there was little conservative political humour in the US that held mass popular appeal.
Jody C Baumgartner
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Chapter 1. Humour in politics and the politics of humour

2011
In this chapter, the authors offer a working definition of political humour and summarise its main aspects as discussed in the relevant literature: the genres where political humour surfaces or dominates; the reasons why political criticism is so often encoded in humorous terms; and the (side-)effects of political humour.
Villy Tsakona, Diana Elena Popa
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“Funny Weapons”: The Norms of Humour in the Construction of Far‐Right Political Polarisation

Social Inclusion
Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, and Javier Milei in Argentina are just a few paradigmatic cases that represent, to different degrees, the rise of populism, the advances of right‐wing radicalism, and the resurgence of extreme ...
Gabriel Bayarri Toscano, C. Fernández-Villanueva   +1 more
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Language, Politics and Humour: On the Conceptualization of Online Humour Producers as Political Discourse Actors

Language and Politics – Between Linguistics and Political Science
This paper examines humor-producing profiles on social media as specific forms of online communities with hierarchical structures centred around administrators as privileged content creators.
Nina Cingerová
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