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Funny, You Don't Look Funny

Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials

Jennifer Caplan

Across generations, humor has been a place for American Jews to explore the relationship between Jewish identity, practices, and history.

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Published: March 2023
ISBN: 9780814347300
$94.99
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Published: March 2023
ISBN: 9780814347317
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2023
ISBN: 9780814347324

Eye of the Taika

New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi

Matthew Bannister

Innovative study of Taika Waititi, whose Maori and Jewish roots influence his distinctive New Zealand comedic style.

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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814345320
$92.99
Paperback
Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814345337
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814345344
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After "Happily Ever After"

Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age

Edited by Maria San Filippo

Explores romantic comedy’s revitalizing response to shifting sexual and social mores of the past decade.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: May 2021
ISBN: 9780814346730
$92.99
Paperback
Published: May 2021
ISBN: 9780814346747
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2021
ISBN: 9780814346754

Laughter After

Humor and the Holocaust

Edited by David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt

A global tour of Jewish humor about the Holocaust.

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Published: April 2020
ISBN: 9780814347386
$86.99
Paperback
Published: April 2020
ISBN: 9780814344781
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2020
ISBN: 9780814344798

The Comedian as Confidence Man

Studies in Irony Fatigue

Will Kaufman

In this lively and fascinating analysis of humorists and their work, Will Kaufman breaks new ground with his irony fatigue theory.

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Published: October 2019
ISBN: 9780814346792
$34.99
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Published: October 2019
ISBN: 9780814346808
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The Orbit Magazine Anthology

Re-Entry

Rob St. Mary
With a Foreword by Jerry Vile

A history of three of Detroit’s most irreverent and memorable alt-media publications—Orbit, Fun, and White Noise—from 1978 to 1999.

Paperback
Published: September 2015
ISBN: 9780814337318
$34.99

Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema

Edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman

Explores the proliferation of humor in recent cinema of the Middle East and its possible ramifications for cinematic representation, art, and politics.

Paperback
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814339374
$31.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814339381

The Last Laugh

Strange Humors of Cinema

Edited by Murray Pomerance

Fascinating explorations of dark, strange, unpredictable, and non-comedic laughter.

Paperback
Published: May 2013
ISBN: 9780814335130
$33.99
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Published: May 2013
ISBN: 9780814338551
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Understanding Humor in Japan

Edited by Jessica Milner Davis

A comprehensive look at the customary differences between humor in Japan and the West, providing cultural examples and illustrative terminology in the original Japanese.

Paperback
Published: February 2006
ISBN: 9780814331651
$33.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2006
ISBN: 9780814340912

Performing Marginality

Humor, Gender, and Cultural Critique

Joanne R. Gilbert

A rhetorical analysis of female stand-up comics that explores the relationships among humor, gender, and power in contemporary culture.

Paperback
Published: April 2004
ISBN: 9780814328033
$29.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2004
ISBN: 9780814337448

Writing Humor

Creativity and the Comic Mind

Mary Ann Rishel

Learn how to expand the humor in your imagination into the most fulfilling and fun-filled genres in creative writing—from comedy to a satirical essay to a joke monologue—with the help of Writing Humor, the first textbook of its kind for college students.

Paperback
Published: April 2002
ISBN: 9780814329603
$28.99
Hardback
Published: April 2002
ISBN: 9780814329597
$42.95

Laughing Feminism

Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen

Audrey Bilger

An examination of comedy and feminism in the works of early women British novelists.

Paperback
Published: February 2002
ISBN: 9780814330548
$28.99

Humor in Borges

René de Costa

Humor in Borges studies the humor embedded in the fiction of the serious and metaphysical literary figure, Jorge Luis Borges.

Hardback
Published: April 2000
ISBN: 9780814328880
$32.99

Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded

Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter

Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection.

Paperback
Published: December 1992
ISBN: 9780814324325
$26.99
eBOOK
Published: December 1992
ISBN: 9780814337417

Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing

Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

Alan Dundes
Carl R. Pagter

Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace.

Paperback
Published: June 1991
ISBN: 9780814323588
$26.99
Hardback
Published: June 1991
ISBN: 9780814323571
$44.95
eBOOK
Published: June 1991
ISBN: 9780814337400

Jewish Wry

Essays on Jewish Humor

Edited with an Introduction by Sarah Blacher Cohen

Jewish Wry examines the development of Jewish humor in a series of essays on topics that range from Sholom Aleichem's humor to Jewish comediennes through to the humor of Philip Roth.

Paperback
Published: December 1990
ISBN: 9780814323663
$26.99

When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators

More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

Alan Dundes
Carl R. Pagter

Office copier folklore that regularly circulate in office buildings everywhere—is the subject of this innovative study.

Paperback
Published: April 1987
ISBN: 9780814318676
$24.99