...This chapter examines later developments in bande dessinée gag humour, from the 1960s up to the 1980s. It focuses on three artists: Marcel Gotlib, Claire Bretécher and Régis Franc. All three satisfied the French-speaking public's shared appetite for laughter by drawing gags...

... responded to his commission with characteristically esoteric humour and what this tells us about the relationship between art, national identity, and sea travel. Anderson Sir Colin Australia Bawden Edward emigration Freud Lucien humour Love Samuel mural national identity nostalgia ocean liner...

... effects, and the material's black humour more accentuated. In keeping with the director's expertise in the realm of the epic, Hannibal was placed within a much more geographically sprawling canvas, with a great deal of the film shot in a beautifully evoked Florence, the city in which...

...This chapter examines sitcom cinema in Spain. It explores the specificity of humour in Spain and the ambivalent relationship between comic film and television. The chapter also discusses the incursion of television aesthetics and economics into the film comedy, El otro lado de la cama...

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...Humour and radical politics are often seen as antithetical. When it comes to lesbian radicalism, this perception is even more extreme. Utopias, on the other hand, are most often places of, if not necessarily humour and pleasure, than at least harmony and contentment. Utopian politics in which...

...This introduction will briefly discuss the ways in which the January 2015 attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo provoked debates about humour and freedom of expression, as well as the limits of humour. It will argue that debates surrounding Charlie Hebdo...

... to debates about humour and multiculturalism in France. Charlie Hebdo freedom of expression speech French politics and society humour class United Kingdom Vauclair David Weston Vauclair Jane Cavana Charb Choron Riss terrorism Val Philippe Islam and Muslims Jyllands Posten Private Eye de...

...After exploring the general impact of the 2015 terrorist attacks on French humour and humorists, this conclusion will focus on the perennial question of ‘peut-on rire de tout?’ (can one laugh about everything?) in order to assess contemporary attitudes to humour in France. It will then broaden its...

... in the author's one-to one tutorials with John Newton. Yet although Leavis may have been inclined to lecture rather than discuss, the wit and humour he displayed in doing so was only one of the many reasons his seminars were so fascinating. Jacobson Howard Addison Joseph Beljame Alexandre Eliot T S Works...

...This chapter explores Catullus' use of humour and obscenity in his poetry writing. It is said that publishing Catullus' work in the past has proven to be difficult, owing to the obscene content of some of his poems. Old editions would often leave out the offensive poems altogether, and some...

... on a theoretical slant, examining the Vache paintings in the light of Bataille’s neglected text, in which Aztec religion and humour are brought to bear on a critique of Western civilization and society. The chapter concludes with a broader study of humour in the Surrealist group, bringing forth...

... along a trajectory that aligns with changes in the theory of laughter, articulated in the work of Thomas Hobbes, Francis Hutcheson and James Beattie. Thus, Macklin’s early work deploys comedy to permit the audience to laugh at ethnic others; this changes to a humour that asks the audience to laugh...

...This chapter addresses mass-media culture, as the Jewish home-based value of laughing at oneself goes public with the rise of the recording of Jewish comedy acts. It explores the bawdy humour of Belle Barth, Pearl Williams, and Patsy Abbott — three working-class, Jewish, stand-up comics who were...

...This chapter talks about the behaviour of 'playing on the computer' that primarily involved sharing jokes in the 1990s. It mentions folklorist Paul Smith who dubbed the computer as the 'Joke Machine' and predicted the exponential growth of its humour-generating function. It also discusses how...

..., what did remain largely intact was Romero's subversive humour. This merging of the gory and the funny was an identifiable trope in the emerging splatter and body horror movement. King's comedy is sometimes even broader, particularly in his screenplays, which often lack the sophistication of Romero's...

...This chapter will show that career trajectory of Dieudonné raises many important questions about the limits of freedom expression and the extent to which it is possible to police offensive humour. Despite being associated with anti-racist movements in the 1990s, he has more recently come...

... and humour need to go well beyond discussing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The presence of a growing number of comedians in France who evoke their Muslim roots challenges the perceived incompatibility of Islam and humour that is often evoked in debates about depictions of the Prophet...

...This timely study sheds new light on debates about humour and multiculturalism in France, and is the first monograph about multiculturalism and humour in France to be published in either English or French that analyses both debates about Charlie Hebdo and stand-up comedy...

...Annie Leclerc’s writing, most famously the iconic 1974 text Parole de femme, speaks with lyricism and humour for the différencialiste (difference) current of French women’s writing – the current that has been widely identified outside France with ‘French Feminism...