Humour, comedy and laughter : obscenities, paradoxes, insights and the renewal of life /: obscenities, paradoxes, insights and the renewal of life. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lidia Dina Sciama.
• Editors: Sciama, Lidia D
• Contents: List of Illustrations <a href="/downloads/intros/SciamaHumour_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> Introduction ; Lidia Dina Sciama Chapter 1. The Origins of Comic Performance in Adult-Child Interaction; Ian Wilkie and Matthew Saxton Chapter 2. Learning from the Ludic: Anthropological Fieldwork; Judith Okely Chapter 3. Humour as a Form of Cognition; Elisabeth Hsu Chapter 4. Comic Strips and the Making of American Identity; Ian Rakoff Chapter 5. Jokes without Frontiers, War without Tears: Humour, Stress and Power in an Anglo-German Bank Branch; Fiona Moore Chapter 6. Laughing at the Future: Cross-Cultural Science Fiction Films; Dolores Martinez Chapter 7. The English Pantomime: Toying with History, Playing with Gender, Laughing at Today; Shirley Ardener Chapter 8. The Function of Satire in Italian Popular Song; Glauco Sanga Chapter 9. Laughing at the Past among Venetian Islanders: Carlo Goldoni's Scuffles in Chioggia ; Lidia Dina Sciama
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 152.43; Wit and humor -- Psychological aspects; Joking; Laughter
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782385431
• Related ISBNs: 9780857450746
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