Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Comedy and the Politics of (Global) Resistance
- 1 Everyday Comic Resistance in Global Context
- 2 The Satire Boom: Imperial Decline and the Rise of the Everyday Elite
- 3 Alternative Comedy and Resistance to ‘Thatcher’s Britain’
- 4 Irony and the Liminality of Resistance
- 5 Austerity and the Rise of Radical Comedy
- 6 Brexit, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Single Market
- 7 The Globalization of Comic Resistance?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Comedy and the Politics of (Global) Resistance
- 1 Everyday Comic Resistance in Global Context
- 2 The Satire Boom: Imperial Decline and the Rise of the Everyday Elite
- 3 Alternative Comedy and Resistance to ‘Thatcher’s Britain’
- 4 Irony and the Liminality of Resistance
- 5 Austerity and the Rise of Radical Comedy
- 6 Brexit, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Single Market
- 7 The Globalization of Comic Resistance?
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Ironic StateBritish Comedy and the Everyday Politics of Globalization, pp. i - iiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2021