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Tables of Contents for The Humor Prism in 20Th-Century America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
11
6
PART I. INTRODUCTION
17
16
History and Humor
17
11
Joseph Boskin
What Makes People Laugh?: Cracking the Cultural Code
28
5
Arthur Asa Berger
PART II. THE CONTOURS OF AMERICAN LAUGHTER
33
84
The Great American Joke
33
13
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Our Native Hummor
46
9
Sculley Bradley
Entropy and Transformation: Two Types of American Humor
55
16
Arlen J. Hansen
American Political Humor: Touchables and Taboos
71
15
Joseph Boskin
The Standup Comedian as Anthropologist: Intentional Culture Critic
86
31
Stephanie Koziski
PART III. MULTICULTURAL SPACES
117
76
The Urban Landscape
117
7
Joseph Boskin
Saloons and Burlesques
124
10
Joseph Boskin
The People of the Joke: On the Conceptualization of a Jewish Humor
134
11
Elliott Oring
African-American Humor: Resistance and Retaliation
145
14
Joseph Boskin
Why Are These Women Laughing? The Power and Politics of Women's Humor
159
13
Suzanne L. Bunkers
A Rose by Any Other Name...The Occassional Doo-Dah Parade
172
15
Denise L. Lawrence
PART IV. EVENTS AND SCRIPTS
187
80
1950s-1960s: Sick and Elephant The Giant and the Child: "Cruel" Humor in American Culture
187
8
Joseph Boskin
1960s: Helen Keller The Helen Keller Joke Cycle
195
13
Mac E. Barrick
1950s-1980s: Polish Racial Riddles and the Polack Joke
208
17
Mac E. Barrick
1970s-1980s: Jewish American Princess (J.A.P.) The J.A.P. and the J.A.M. in American Jokelore
225
25
Alan Dundes
1970s-1980s: Light Bulb Many Hands Make Light Work or Caught in the Act of Screwing in Light Bulbs
250
8
Alan Dundes
1980s-1990s: Disaster Those Sick Challenger Jokes
258
9
Patrick D. Morrow
Bibliography
267