This vital new book critically considers the importance of comedy in challenging and redefining our relations to race and racism through the lens of political correctness. By viewing comedy as both a constitutive feature of social interaction and as a necessary requirement in the appraisal of what is often deemed to be ‘politically correct’, this book provides an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to the study of comedy and popular culture.
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- Multidisciplinary Approach: Engages with social and cultural tensions regarding political correctness.
- Subversive Analysis: Explores how comedy can redefine approaches to ‘PC Debates’ and free speech.
- Psychoanalytic Framework: Utilises the work of Slavoj Žižek and Alenka Zupančič.
- Television Comedies: Analyses the widely acclaimed BBC ‘mockumentary’, The Office (UK), among others.
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In doing so, it engages with the social and cultural tensions inherent to our understandings of political correctness, arguing that comedy can subversively redefine our approach to ‘PC Debates’, contestations surrounding free speech and the popular portrayal of political correctness in the media and society.
Drawing from psychoanalysis, social psychology and philosophy, this book will be highly relevant for postgraduate students and academic researchers studying comedy, race/racism, multiculturalism, political correctness and television/film.
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