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Funny, You Don't Look Funny
Publication Date: March 2023
Offering ample evidence and examples along the way, Caplan guides readers through a series of phenomenological and ideological changes across generations, concluding with commentary regarding the potential influences on Jewish humor of later Millennials, Gen Z, and beyond.
After "Happily Ever After"
Publication Date: May 2021
This volume is intended for all readers with an interest in film, media, and gender studies.
101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition
Publication Date: August 2020
101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales.
The Comedian as Confidence Man
Publication Date: October 2019
If these social observers are obliged to become, in effect, confidence men, with irony as the satiric weapon that both attacks and diverts, then the implications are great for those social critics who above all wish to be heeded.
Maverick
Publication Date: August 2015
Maverick fans and scholars of American television history will enjoy this close look at the classic series.
Writing Humor
Publication Date: April 2002
Readers will find an inventive selection of examples to learn from, including a script from M*A*S*H and pieces by such humorists as Woody Allen, Ogden Nash, and Art Buchwald—and by students as well.
Humor in Borges
Publication Date: April 2000
Scholars and students of twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature will delight in this fascinating look at laughter in the work of Jorge Luis Borges.
Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded
Publication Date: December 1992
The humor of the materials pinpoints the ills and frustrations of modern society and becomes, in turn, an escape from them.
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing
Publication Date: June 1991
Dundes and Pagter clearly demonstrate the existence of folklore in the modern urban technological world and refute the notion that folklore reflects only the past.
Jewish Wry
Publication Date: December 1990
This important book offers enjoyable reading as well as a significant and scholarly contribution to the field.
When You're up to Your Ass in Alligators
Publication Date: April 1987
Bosses, ethnic groups, minorities, the sexes, alternative lifestyles, politics, welfare, government workers, the law, bureaucracy, and even "The Night Before Christmasall come under fire to form a biting, and hilarious, commentary on modern American society.
