Politics, Humor and the Counterculture

Laughter in the Age of Decay

von Vwadek P. Marciniak

154 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Politics, Humor, and the Counterculture discusses the post-war period (1945-1972) through the lenses of three artists: Ken Nordine, Lenny Bruce, and Firesign Theatre. Their humor cut through the hypocrisy of the Cold War and the prevailing culture and expanded our horizons. From the Beats to the peace and civil rights movements, these humorists illuminate America from their unique perspectives. Vwadek P. Marciniak highlights the poetic nature of humor as well as its insights on our political and social habits: addiction, conformity, marketing, and fear. The modern is giving way to the post-modern, the fixed to an existential attitude: humanism and humor.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781433103599
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.10.2008
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York