Laughing Space

Laughing Space
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Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Total Pages : 520
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ISBN-10 : 0860511812
ISBN-13 : 9780860511816
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

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Look Who's Laughing

Look Who's Laughing
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 9781134304738
ISBN-13 : 1134304730
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Look Who's Laughing by : Gail Finney

First Published in 1994. Look Who's Laughing belies the notion that in a joke the only place for a woman is in the butt, Rather than analysing women's humor in isolation, Gail Finney and twenty scholars map the terrain that the genders share and the areas that each hold exclusively. Their essays investigate witty heroines, sexual parodies, domestic humor and romantic power. They focus on comic drama and fiction, stand-up comedy, cartoons, and film describing the roles gender has played in the creation, reception and interpretation of comedy from the sixteenth century to present. They consider works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Zora Neale Hurston and Virginia Woolf, whilst discussing characters such as V.I. Warshawski, Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Bennet. The book's emphasis on comedy's diverse sources uncovers critical prejudices and defines new contexts enabling men and women to understand more about each other's attitudes towards humor, its means and ends.

Laugh Your Way to Grace

Laugh Your Way to Grace
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages : 173
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ISBN-10 : 9781594733437
ISBN-13 : 1594733430
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Laugh Your Way to Grace by : Rev. Susan Sparks

Laughter—the GPS System for the Soul Laughter was honored by the ancients as a spiritual healing tool and celebrated by the world's great religions. So why aren’t we laughing along the spiritual path today? What would happen if we did? In this personal and funny look at humor as a spiritual practice, Rev. Susan Sparks—an ex-lawyer turned comedian and Baptist minister—presents a convincing case that the power of humor radiates far beyond punch lines. Laughter can help you: Remove the fearful mask of a God who doesn’t laugh Debunk the myths that you don’t deserve joy Find perspective when faced with adversity Exercise forgiveness for yourself and others Reclaim play as a spiritual practice Heal—emotionally, physically, and spiritually Keep your faith when God is silent Live with elegance, beauty, and generosity of spirit Whatever your faith tradition—or if you have none at all—join this veteran of the punch line and the pulpit in reclaiming the forgotten humor legacy found in thousands of years of human spiritual history.

The Laughing Witch

The Laughing Witch
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Publisher : Conscious Stories
Total Pages : 52
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ISBN-10 : 1943750386
ISBN-13 : 9781943750382
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Laughing Witch by : Andrew Newman

Follow the adventures of our hero, The Laughing Witch, as she prepares her pot with the fruits of the forest she loves. Learn how she lives hand-in-hand with all of nature and how she creates sacred space to honor those she loves and cares for. "A delight

Who’s Laughing Now?

Who’s Laughing Now?
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Publisher : Demeter Press
Total Pages : 125
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ISBN-10 : 9781772583182
ISBN-13 : 1772583189
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Who’s Laughing Now? by : Anna Frey

From dour old women to buzzkills who can't take a joke, the stereotype of the humourless feminist has repeatedly been deployed to derail and delegitimize the women's rights movement. This collection skips the tired debates that ask whether feminists can be funny—we know the answer to this already—to instead investigate contemporary expressions and functions of humour within international feminist movements and communities. This interdisciplinary volume showcases critical analyses of cultural texts and events, personal accounts of producing and encountering feminist humour, and creative interruptions that pair laughter with insight. As a whole, this work seeks to sideline caricatures of the humourless feminist by promoting a vision of a diverse movement vibrant with innovative, generous, threatening, and, ultimately, triumphant laughter.

Who's Laughing Now?

Who's Laughing Now?
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9780262361149
ISBN-13 : 0262361140
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Who's Laughing Now? by : Jenny Sunden

Exploring feminist social media tactics that use humor and laughter as a form of resistance to misogyny, rewiring feelings of shame into shamelessness. Online sexism, hate, and harassment aim to silence women through shaming and fear. In Who's Laughing Now? Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen examine a somewhat counterintuitive form of resistance: humor. Sundén and Paasonen argue that feminist social media tactics that use humor, laughter, and a sense of the absurd to answer name-calling, offensive language, and unsolicited dick pics can reroute and rewire shame into a self-assured shamelessness.

Laughing Mad

Laughing Mad
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0813539854
ISBN-13 : 9780813539850
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Laughing Mad by : Bambi Haggins

In Laughing Mad , Bambi Haggins looks at how this transition occurred in a variety of media and shows how this integration has paved the way for black comedians and their audiences to affect each other. Historically, African American performers have been able to use comedy as a pedagogic tool, interjecting astute observations about race relations while the audience is laughing. And yet, Haggins makes the convincing argument that the potential of African American comedy remains fundamentally unfulfilled as the performance of blackness continues to be made culturally digestible for mass consumption.

Don't Laugh at Me

Don't Laugh at Me
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : 1582460582
ISBN-13 : 9781582460581
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Don't Laugh at Me by : Allen Shamblin

Illustrated version of a song pointing out that in spite of our differences, we are all the same in God's eyes.

Making Philosophy Laugh

Making Philosophy Laugh
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 167
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ISBN-10 : 9781666755992
ISBN-13 : 1666755990
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Making Philosophy Laugh by : Dustin Peone

Contemporary philosophy has adopted an increasingly tragic point of view. Tragedy, though, is only a partial truth of the human condition. Comedy is another partial truth. The nature of human existence is neither wholly the one nor the other, but tragi-comic. Philosophy must be attuned to both despair and laughter if it is to understand its own world. In Making Philosophy Laugh, the philosopher Dustin Peone makes an apology for the comic side of existence and its use in philosophy. He demonstrates the social and moral uses of humor and analyzes its significance for speculative thinking. Folly and irony are shown to be vital facets of dialectical philosophy. The reader is introduced to the comical side of Socrates and Homer, Descartes and Vico, Kant and Hegel, and many others. Finally, a doctrine of the tragi-comic sense of life is presented that does justice to all aspects of human existence and liberates the spirit from the grimness of serious thought.

The Laughing Stalk

The Laughing Stalk
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Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781602352445
ISBN-13 : 1602352445
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Laughing Stalk by : Judy Batalion

With contributions by leading scholars, writers and comedians in the USA, the UK and Canada, The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences focuses on the dynamics of audience behavior. Performers, writers, historians, producers, and theorists explore the practice and reception of live comedy performance, including cultural and historical variations in comedy audience conduct, the reception of “low” versus “high” comedy, and the differences between televised and live jokes. Contributors reflect on the subjectivity of audience members and the spread of affect, as well as the two-way relationship between joker and listener. They investigate race, sexuality and gender in humor, and contemplate the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences includes excerpts and scripts from Michael Frayne’s Audience and Andrea Fraser’s Inaugural Speech. Judy Batalion interviews noted comic writers, performers, and theater designers, including Iain Mackintosh, Shazia Mirza, Julia Chamberlain, Scott Jacobson, and Andrea Fraser. Sarah Boyes contributes a short photographic essay on comedy clubbers. Essay contributors include Alice Rayner, Matthew Daube, Lesley Harbidge, Gavin Butt, Diana Solomon, Rebecca Krefting, Kevin McCarron, Nile Seguin, Elizabeth Klaver, Frances Gray, AL Kennedy, Kélina Gotman, and Samuel Godin. The comedy duo of Sable & Batalion share their conclusions about audience responses to hip-hop theater.