{"title":"Caricature and National Character: The United States at War by Christopher J. Gilbert (review)","authors":"Teresa Prados-Torreira","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"81 1","pages":"183 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72656365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who's Laughing Now?: Feminist Tactics in Social Media by Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen (review)","authors":"Heidi M. Hanrahan","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"17 1","pages":"201 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78349044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comedy as a Practice of Care","authors":"K. Leng","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article considers comedy as a practice of care. Its analysis focuses on major US late-night talk shows produced during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Drawing on interdisciplinary feminist scholarship about care and autobiographical reflection, I argue that comedy plays important roles in cultivating capacities for physical, emotional, and intellectual development; maintaining social ties; supporting well-being; and sustaining reproductive activities. I further suggest that bringing comedy and care together within a common frame can expand our understanding of the relationship between performer and audience as well as our definition of what constitutes care.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"94 11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87667629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence ed. by Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond (review)","authors":"W. Schmenner","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"6 1","pages":"187 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74499960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incongruent Bodies","authors":"Marissa Spada","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0051","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the political humor behind Saturday Night Live’s presidential impressions and how the stakes of such humor are higher when the candidate is a woman. Drawing on theories of comic incongruity, I argue that SNL’s American presidents have “incongruent bodies”; that is, they challenge long-held assumptions about how power and leadership are to be visualized and embodied but ultimately maintain the patriarchal status quo. In the case of former candidate Hillary Clinton, however, what makes her incongruent with the role of the presidency is the simple fact of her being a woman. I argue that SNL’s Hillary Clinton characters, played by Amy Poehler and Kate McKinnon, foreground the basic contradiction of the woman candidate, offering an embodied critique on the gendering of power and leadership in America.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87345118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff (review)","authors":"Marianne Kongerslev","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"52 1","pages":"190 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75082524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art ed. by Richard Scully and Andrekos Varnava (review)","authors":"J. Y. Lee","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"21 1","pages":"193 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86197159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Editor’s Drawers","authors":"Lawrence W. Howe","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.2.0223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.2.0223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"31 1","pages":"223 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86495728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Satire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern \"Truthiness\" and Civic Engagement by James E. Caron (review)","authors":"B. O'sullivan","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"13 1","pages":"179 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88739698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resistance TV","authors":"Lisa M. Beringer","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0075","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 African American sketch comedy uses satirical humor to decenter common white tropes of Blackness that are reinforced in media depictions through an intellectual and emotional approach that both frees satirists from traditional form and structure and that asks viewers—especially white ones—to question the root cause of their laughter and in turn their embrace of racist systems. Focusing on the harmfulness of racism and its intersection with sexism, this article argues that sketch comedy uses satirical humor to flip the script on commonly held stereotypes of Blackness, resist American racism, and in the end assert a claim for Black humanity in self-defined terms, offering humorous resistance as a modality that may get us closer to finding an “off switch” to racism.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"8 4 Suppl 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83481475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}