{"title":"Going There: Black Visual Satire","authors":"Owen Cantrell","doi":"10.37862/aaeportal.00221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00221","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75941797","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":"Seeing MAD: Essays on MAD Magazine’s Humor and Legacy","authors":"J. Caplan","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85944546","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":"Mothers and Whores","authors":"Amber Day","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0032","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines two public controversies that arose in quick succession in 2018 around the routines of two female comics: Michelle Wolf’s monologue at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and Samantha Bee’s segment on the policy of separating children from their immigrant parents at the border, which contained a crude insult about Ivanka Trump. Both incidents attracted attention and commentary far beyond the reaches of the performers’ usual audiences. In the wider conversation that myriad voices participated in, a much broader discursive struggle took place over ideals and norms. I argue that it was fundamentally a battle over conceptions of femininity and motherhood and, ultimately, over how to be a respectable woman in the public sphere. Not incidentally, defense of the jokes’ victims revolved around their status as “wives and mothers,” while disavowals of the joke tellers focused on the vulgarity of their use of profanity and sexual innuendo. Overall, these incidents ultimately drive home the way female performers have become hot spots in the “culture wars,” themselves sites of battle over ideals of gender, power, and public space.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74633160","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 Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2020","authors":"G. Martin, J. Rossing","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0113","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:\"Year's Work in American Humor Studies,\" an annual feature of Studies in American Humor since 1999, reviews humor scholarship and related materials, including humor theory, published during the specified year from many disciplinary perspectives. The review gives special emphasis to studies of humor in American culture, broadly conceived.","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"14 1","pages":"113 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74306141","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":"Ethics in Comedy: Essays on Crossing the Line ed. by Steven Benko (review)","authors":"Kenneth L. Brewer","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.399","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"17 1","pages":"399 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85600641","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":"Late Night with Trump: Political Humor and the American Presidency by Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter (review)","authors":"P. M. Robinson","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"108 1","pages":"411 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81685773","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 Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging","authors":"J. Y. Lee","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82191673","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":"Freedom in Laughter: Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the Civil Rights Movement","authors":"Michael H. Epp","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76099197","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":"From Blackface to Black Twitter: Reflections on Black Humor, Race, Politics, and Gender by Jannette L. Dates and Mia Moody Ramirez (review)","authors":"B. Edmonds","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"25 1","pages":"405 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85293437","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":"How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 by Jean Lee Cole (review)","authors":"Rick Cousins","doi":"10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.7.2.392","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53944,"journal":{"name":"Studies in American Humor","volume":"34 1","pages":"392 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75628810","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}