Dark laughter: Spanish film, comedy, and the nation
Dark laughter: Spanish film, comedy, and the nation
Dark laughter: Spanish film, comedy, and the nation
Dark laughter: Spanish film, comedy, and the nation
Dark laughter: Spanish film, comedy, and the nation
Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hollow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him…
Far away, in the ancient empire of Greater Fallowfields, things are falling apart. The imperial orchestra is presided over by a conductor who has never played a note, the clocks are changed constantly to ensure that the sun always sets at five o' clock, and the Astronomer Royal …
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In is Magnus Mills's most ambitious work to date. A surreal portrait of a world that, although strange and distant, contains rather too many similarities to our own for the alien not to become brilliantly familiar and disturbingly close t…
Far away, in the ancient empire of Greater Fallowfields, things are falling apart. The imperial orchestra is presided over by a conductor who has never played a note, the clocks are changed constantly to ensure that the sun always sets at five o' clock, and the Astronomer Royal …
Politics of joking: anthropological engagements
Politics of joking: anthropological engagements
The politics of joking: anthropological engagements
The politics of joking: anthropological engagements
Politics of joking: anthropological engagements
Politics of joking: anthropological engagements
This book engages anthropologically with humor as political expression. It reveals how humor is in many instances central to human efforts to cope with political struggle and significant to understanding power dynamics in socio-political life. The chapters examine humor and joki…