TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vwadek P. Marciniak
PY  - 2008
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453903803
TI  - Politics, Humor and the Counterculture
T2  - Laughter in the Age of Decay
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0380-3
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050839
N2  - Politics, Humor, and the Counterculture discusses the post-war period (1945-1972) through the lenses of three artists: Ken Nordine, Lenny Bruce, and Firesign Theatre. Their humor cut through the hypocrisy of the Cold War and the prevailing culture and expanded our horizons. From the Beats to the peace and civil rights movements, these humorists illuminate America from their unique perspectives. Vwadek P. Marciniak highlights the poetic nature of humor as well as its insights on our political and social habits: addiction, conformity, marketing, and fear. The modern is giving way to the post-modern, the fixed to an existential attitude: humanism and humor.
KW  - Humor, Gegenkultur, Geschichte 1945-1972, 20th Century /American History, U.S. Protest movement, Philosophy, Existentialism, Postmodernism, Cold War, USA
LA  - English
ER  -