Sarah Ilott is a Senior Lecturer in English and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She co-leads the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies at MMU and the comedy and gender research network Mixed Bill.
This book traces the shifting politics of race in contemporary Britain through analysis of screen comedy that has worked to parrot, cloak or confront racist discourse. Moving from 1950s minstrelsy through to contemporary streaming-era content, Ilott demonstrates how race is made and unmade through screen comedy’s engagements with the tacit (and often racist) premises of British multicultural discourse.