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Math for English majors : a human take on the universal language
\"This helpful, humorous handbook for the mathematically challenged uses author Ben Orlin's empathy, humor, and \"bad drawings\" to unravel the secrets behind the world's most confounding language\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film
If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed. Many popular box-office successes have been steeped in jokes on parochial conflicts, vulgar behavior and/or on sexual display, towards which Dutch people have often felt ambivalent. At the same time, something like a 'Hollandse school', a term first coined in the 1980s, has manifested itself more firmly, with the work of Alex van Warmerdam, pervaded in deadpan irony as its biggest eye-catcher. Using seminal theories of humor and irony as an angle, this study scrutinizes a great number of Dutch films on the basis of categories such as low-class comedies; neurotic romances; deliberate camp; cosmic irony, or grotesque satire. Hence, Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film makes surprising connections between films from various decades: Flodder and New Kids Turbo; Spetters and Simon; Rent a Friend and Ober;
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Shitty Craft Club : a club for gluing beads to trash, talking about our feelings, and making silly things
\"Through silly and deeply relatable tales from her life, Sam Reece, founder of the Shitty Craft Club, guides you through dozens of craft projects that give you permission to be as weird, wild, and wonderful as you want to be\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Branchez-vous! : Et autres poèmes biscornus
« Dans Branchez-vous! et autres poèmes biscornus, François Gravel s'interroge sur les curiosités de la langue française et s'en amuse. Il va même jusqu'à mélanger l'anglais au français pour s'entortiller les mots et la tête encore plus. Un recueil de poésie humoristique rempli d'esprit pour aborder le français et l'anglais autrement et sans complexe. Des illustrations insolites et conceptuelles qui, autant que le texte, interpellent le lecteur. Un album qui fait suite à Voyage en amnésie et Débile toi-même ! et autres poèmes tordus. »-- Résumé de l'éditeur.
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Laughing all the way to the mosque
A humorous account of growing up in a traditionally Muslim household in Canada.
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Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
How online humor influences politics and culture in Latin
America
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin
American perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and
Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and
circulation of online humor influence the region's relation to
democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in
everyday life.
Several case studies consider memes, including discussions of
political cartoons in Mexico and imagery that portrays the
mismanagement of natural disasters in Puerto Rico. Essays on Brazil
examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by Jair Bolsonaro
supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie Fascionista offers
memes as political commentary. Other case studies consider video
content, including the sketches of Argentinian comedian Guillermo
Aquino, the short-form material of Chilean vlogger Germán
Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalists in
Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying
the laughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake
Twitter accounts.
Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
demonstrates that internet humor can generate novel means of public
interaction with the political and cultural spheres and create
greater expectations of governmental accountability and democratic
participation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious
attention to humorous digital content as part of contemporary
culture.
Contributors: Eva Paulina Bueno | Juan Poblete | Alberto
Centeno-Pulido | Damián Fraticelli | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | Viktor
Chagas | Paul Alonso | Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva | Héctor Fernández
L'Hoeste | Alejandra Nallely Collado Campos | R. Sánchez-Rivera |
Mélodine Sommier | Fábio Marques de Souza
A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture
in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan
Carlos Rodríguez
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the
Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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Goodnight homeroom : all the advice I wish I got before going to high school
\"Gift middle school graduates with an informative and humorous guide to high school, featuring life-changing tips combined with funny full-color illustrations in this faux children's book for soon-to-be freshmen. Congratulations, you're officially off to high school! For a soon-to-be freshmen, life comes at you fast, and the move from middle school to high school is one of the most exciting, difficult, and, at times, overwhelming transitions you'll ever go through. Goodnight Homeroom contains funny rhyming poems covering the ups and downs of high school along with advice on how to enjoy your time and overcome challenges during the next four years\"-- Amazon.com.
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Rolling
Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled,
intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses.
Rolling centers Blackness in comedy, especially on
television, and observing that it is often relegated to biopics,
slave narratives, and the comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas
about double consciousness and Racquel Gates's extension of his
theories, we know that Blackness resonates for Black viewers in
ways often entirely different than for white viewers. Contributors
to this volume cover a range of cases representing African American
humor across film, television, digital media, and stand-up as Black
comic personas try to work within, outside, and around culture,
tilling for content. Essays engage with the complex industrial
interplay of Blackness, white audiences, and comedy; satire and
humor on media platforms; and the production of Blackness within
comedy through personal stories and interviews of Black production
crew and writers for television comedy.
Rolling illuminates the inner workings of Blackness and
comedy in media discourse.
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