A Conservative Walks Into a Bar: The Politics of Political Humor
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (513 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1137262842 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 239 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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ALISON DAGNES is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, USA. Prior to receiving her doctorate in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dr. Dr. Her current research examines ideology and political satire. Dagnes was a producer for C-
"Alison Dagnes' new book A Conservative Walks into a Bar is an engaging and thoughtful analysis of political satire in America. Perfect examples include SNL's treatment of Sarah Palin and Stephen Colbert's recent presidential campaign. Dagnes has done it again: This brilliant, witty, necessary, evidence-based examination of our political humor and times is essential reading, and the perfect antidote to the instant-analysis impulses of our polarized era." - Kevan M.Yenerall, professor of Political Science, Clarion University, and co-author, Seeing the Bigger Picture: American and
An interesting topic but a difficult book to read I had higher hopes for this book. I am an undergraduate student working on an honors thesis that deals with media discourse analysis in a qualitative fashion similar to this book and I feel like I could do a better job at analyzing the material than this author did. There was not an attempt at including visual examples or data charts and she only analyzed a week's worth of content when she prefaces the work by saying that political comedy has skyrocketed in the past decade. She had plenty to work with.Not only is the research shaky, but the writing does n. A Qualitatively Interesting Read on Political Humor That Could Have Been Better As a whole, the book is rather interesting and provides some insight into the nature of political satire in the modern age. It is primarily a qualitative work, focusing mostly on analyzing the interviews the author conducted with various comedians. From an academic perspective, however, it is mostly okay. The quantitative analysis done was quite simple and rudimentary, and the content analysis should have probably been longer than a week. The greatest disappointment, however, was that it seems no effort was taken to compare the qualitative findings of the. Florence Ditlow said A Deeper View of Satire-- not a joke book. According to Allison Dagnes, laughter universally extends beyond borders and species. Quoting Simon Critchley, she says we laugh for three basic reasons- to feel superior, to release pent up energy and as a result of witnessing incongruity.In our current polarized climate, we may be brought together by humor if people don’t object to comedy itself. Satire could shed light needed to eventually solve problems.In her interview with Mark Maron: “comedians release aggression and disarm things while making a point about our culture and society.&rdqu
This book examines why there are so few conservative political satirists today and explores the consequences of this imbalance.