Taboo Comedy

Television and Controversial Humour

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The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and reality shows, and advertising) both on cable and network television. Whilst the focus is predominantly on the US and UK, the contributors also address more general and global issues and different contexts of reception, in an attempt to look at this kind of comedy from different perspectives. Over the last few decades, taboo comedy has become a staple of television programming, thus raising issues concerning its functions and appropriateness, and making it an extremely relevant subject for those interested in how both humour and television work.

Autor:

Bucaria, Chiara

Verlag:

Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Veröffentlichung:	19.12.2016
Höhe/Breite/Gewicht	H 21 cm / B 14,8 cm / 4199 g
Seiten	238
Art des Mediums	Buch
Preis DE	EUR 117.69
Preis AT	EUR 120.99
Reihe	Palgrave Studies in Comedy
ISBN-13	978-1-137-59337-5
ISBN-10	1137593377

Über den Autor

Chiara Bucaria is Associate Professor in English Language and Translation at the Department of Interpretation and Translation of the University of Bologna, Italy. Her main research interests include the translation of audiovisual products, censorship and textual manipulation, and dark humour. Chiara Bucaria was the recipient of the International Society for Humor Studies’ Emerging Scholar Award in 2006.

Luca Barra is Lecturer in Television and Media Studies at the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna, Italy. His research mainly focuses on television production and distribution cultures, comedy and humour TV genres, the international circulation of media products (and their national mediations), the history of Italian television, and the evolution of the contemporary media landscape."