Humor
Funny, You Don't Look Funny
Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials
Across generations, humor has been a place for American Jews to explore the relationship between Jewish identity, practices, and history.
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ISBN: 9780814347300
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ISBN: 9780814347317
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ISBN: 9780814347324
Eye of the Taika
New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi
Innovative study of Taika Waititi, whose Maori and Jewish roots influence his distinctive New Zealand comedic style.
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ISBN: 9780814345320
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ISBN: 9780814345337
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ISBN: 9780814345344

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After "Happily Ever After"
Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age
Explores romantic comedy’s revitalizing response to shifting sexual and social mores of the past decade.
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ISBN: 9780814346730
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ISBN: 9780814346747
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ISBN: 9780814346754
Laughter After
Humor and the Holocaust
A global tour of Jewish humor about the Holocaust.
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ISBN: 9780814347386
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ISBN: 9780814344781
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ISBN: 9780814344798
The Comedian as Confidence Man
Studies in Irony Fatigue
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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ISBN: 9780814346792
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ISBN: 9780814346808

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The Orbit Magazine Anthology
Re-Entry
A history of three of Detroit’s most irreverent and memorable alt-media publications—Orbit, Fun, and White Noise—from 1978 to 1999.
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ISBN: 9780814337318
Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema
Explores the proliferation of humor in recent cinema of the Middle East and its possible ramifications for cinematic representation, art, and politics.
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ISBN: 9780814339374
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ISBN: 9780814339381
The Last Laugh
Strange Humors of Cinema
Fascinating explorations of dark, strange, unpredictable, and non-comedic laughter.
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ISBN: 9780814335130
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ISBN: 9780814338551

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Understanding Humor in Japan
A comprehensive look at the customary differences between humor in Japan and the West, providing cultural examples and illustrative terminology in the original Japanese.
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ISBN: 9780814331651
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ISBN: 9780814340912
Performing Marginality
Humor, Gender, and Cultural Critique
A rhetorical analysis of female stand-up comics that explores the relationships among humor, gender, and power in contemporary culture.
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ISBN: 9780814328033
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ISBN: 9780814337448
Writing Humor
Creativity and the Comic Mind
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.
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ISBN: 9780814329603
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ISBN: 9780814329597
Laughing Feminism
Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen
An examination of comedy and feminism in the works of early women British novelists.
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ISBN: 9780814330548
Humor in Borges
Humor in Borges studies the humor embedded in the fiction of the serious and metaphysical literary figure, Jorge Luis Borges.
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ISBN: 9780814328880
Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded
Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
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.
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ISBN: 9780814324325
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ISBN: 9780814337417
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing
Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace.
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ISBN: 9780814323588
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ISBN: 9780814323571
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ISBN: 9780814337400
Jewish Wry
Essays on Jewish Humor
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.
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ISBN: 9780814323663
When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators
More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Office copier folklore that regularly circulate in office buildings everywhere—is the subject of this innovative study.
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ISBN: 9780814318676