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A national joke : popular comedy and English cultural identities / Andy Medhurst.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203022566
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .N385 2007
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Contents:
Concerning comedy -- Notions of nation -- Englishnesses -- Music hall: Contours and legacies -- Our gracious queens: English comedy's effeminate tradition -- Lads in love: Gender and togetherness in the male double act -- Thirty nibbles at the same cherry: Why the 'Carry Ons' carry on -- Bermuda my arse: Class, culture and 'The Royle Family' -- Anatomising England: Alan Bennett, Mike Leigh, Victoria Wood -- Togetherness through offensiveness: The importance of Roy 'Chubby' Brown -- Conclusion: A national sense of humour?
Summary: In 'A National Joke', Andy Medhurst investigates the Englishness of a century of English comedy. Using case studies of comic traditions and representations, the author shows how comedy plays a key role in the construction of cultural identity.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Concerning comedy -- Notions of nation -- Englishnesses -- Music hall: Contours and legacies -- Our gracious queens: English comedy's effeminate tradition -- Lads in love: Gender and togetherness in the male double act -- Thirty nibbles at the same cherry: Why the 'Carry Ons' carry on -- Bermuda my arse: Class, culture and 'The Royle Family' -- Anatomising England: Alan Bennett, Mike Leigh, Victoria Wood -- Togetherness through offensiveness: The importance of Roy 'Chubby' Brown -- Conclusion: A national sense of humour?

In 'A National Joke', Andy Medhurst investigates the Englishness of a century of English comedy. Using case studies of comic traditions and representations, the author shows how comedy plays a key role in the construction of cultural identity.

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