Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
Autor Jack Blacken Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 2021
By viewing comedy as both a constitutive feature of social interaction and as a necessary requirement in the appraisal of what is often deemed to be ‘politically correct’, this book provides an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to the study of comedy and popular culture. In doing so, it engages with the social and cultural tensions inherent to our understandings of political correctness, arguing that comedy can subversively redefine our approach to ‘PC Debates’, contestations surrounding free speech and the popular portrayal of political correctness in the media and society. Aided by the work of both Slavoj Žižek and Alenka Zupančič, this unique analysis adopts a psychoanalytic/philosophical framework to explore issues of race, racism and political correctness in the widely acclaimed BBC ‘mockumentary’, The Office (UK), as well as a variety of television comedies.
Drawing from psychoanalysis, social psychology and philosophy, this book will be highly relevant for postgraduate students and academic researchers studying comedy, race/racism, multiculturalism, political correctness and television/film.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367508937
ISBN-10: 0367508931
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367508931
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
Introduction 01. Political Correctness and Comedy 02. Subversive Comedy 03. Comedy, Race and Racism 04. Comedy’s Real Subversion 05. The Office Conclusion
Notă biografică
Jack Black is a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. After completing his postgraduate studies at Loughborough University, his research has continued to explore the interrelationships between sociology, media and communications and cultural studies. Drawing upon ‘traditional’ media forms (newspaper analysis) as well as television and film studies, Jack’s published work provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study of ideology, politics and power in both the media and popular culture.
Recenzii
"In our world today, where we struggle with the dissolution of community and trust in each other, with only the contractual communicative dimensions of political correctness as the tether to the social, what can we make of the underlying role of humour, comedy, and jokes, so often the source of offence and resentment? In Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy, Jack Black shows us that the only way to achieve a proper universality under these conditions is through the subversive dimensions of comedy, itself. Drawing on the influential work of Lacanian theorists, such as Alenka Zupančič and Slavoj Žižek, Black teaches us about the politically subversive potentials of comedy, and how humour, more so than political correctness, is the only real way to go on the attack against social ills, like racism. Joining other leading Lacanian scholars, such as Zupančič and Todd McGowan, Black’s book is sure to be a welcomed addition to the growing field of Lacanian studies of comedy." - Matthew Flisfeder, author of Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media
"This book provides a much-needed corrective to the asinine managerialist mindset that promotes the politically correct banality of safe spaces over the unpredictable challenges of critical thinking. Jack Black expertly demonstrates how the path to true seriousness is strewn with jokes. He puts the open-minded reader genuinely concerned about racism on the psychoanalyst’s couch and reveals the various ways in which comedy is a highly resilient antidote to dominant ideological stupidities. University apparatchiks will not like this book – which is why I cannot recommend it highly enough." - Paul Taylor, University of Leeds
"This book provides a much-needed corrective to the asinine managerialist mindset that promotes the politically correct banality of safe spaces over the unpredictable challenges of critical thinking. Jack Black expertly demonstrates how the path to true seriousness is strewn with jokes. He puts the open-minded reader genuinely concerned about racism on the psychoanalyst’s couch and reveals the various ways in which comedy is a highly resilient antidote to dominant ideological stupidities. University apparatchiks will not like this book – which is why I cannot recommend it highly enough." - Paul Taylor, University of Leeds
Descriere
In what ways is comedy subversive? By viewing comedy as both a constitutive feature of social interaction and as a necessary requirement in the appraisal of what is often deemed to be ‘politically correct’, this book provides an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to the study of comedy and popular culture.