No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611688205 ISBN 13: 9781611688207

Publisher: Dartmouth College Press, 2015

Synopsis

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection - which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor - seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark's Muhammad cartoons controversy, the contributors inquire into the role that racial and ethnic stereotypes play in visual humor and the thin line that separates broad characterization as a source of humor from its power to shock or exploit. The authors investigate the ways in which humor is used to demean or give identity to racial, national, or ethnic groups and explore how humor works differently in different media, such as cartoons, photographs, film, video, television, and physical performance. This is a timely and necessary study that will appeal to scholars across disciplines.

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Review

"The scholarship in this volume is superior across the board and a much-needed contribution to the field of race and representation in Western art. Approaching the issues of race and stereotype from another angle, that of humor, these essays help us expand our thinking about power, resistance, and ambivalence, complicating already complicated discourse on identity." --Adrienne Childs, WE.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University

The scholarship in this volume is superior across the board and a much-needed contribution to the field of race and representation in Western art. Approaching the issues of race and stereotype from another angle, that of humor, these essays help us expand our thinking about power, resistance, and ambivalence, complicating already complicated discourse on identity. Adrienne Childs, WE.B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University"

"The essays in . . . this outstanding collection focus on selected works of art that characterize racial, ethnic or gender stereotypes within a culture." ARLIS/NA"

An important contribution to discourses of power and identity. . . . Highly recommended. Choice"

About the Author

ANGELA ROSENTHAL was a professor of art history at Dartmouth College. ADRIAN W. B. RANDOLPH is the Leon E. Williams Professor of Art History at Dartmouth. DAVID BINDMAN is emeritus professor of the history of art at University College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611688205
• ISBN 13: 9781611688207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Rosenthal Angela, Bindman David, Randolph Adrian W. B.