Politics, Humor and the Counterculture
Laughter in the Age of Decay
©2008
Monographs
X,
154 Pages
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- X, 154
- Year
- 2008
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453903803
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433103599
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-0380-3
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2008 (October)
- Keywords
- Humor Gegenkultur Geschichte 1945-1972 20th Century /American History U.S. Protest movement Philosophy Existentialism Postmodernism Cold War USA
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2008. X, 154 pp.
