The last laugh : folk humor, celebrity culture, and mass-mediated disasters in the digital age / Trevor J. Blank.

Widely publicized in mass media worldwide, high-profile tragedies and celebrity scandals, the untimely deaths of Michael Jackson and Princess Diana, the embarrassing affairs of Tiger Woods and President Clinton, the 9/11 attacks or the Challenger space shuttle explosion, often provoke nervous laught...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Blank, Trevor J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2013.
Series:	Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
Subjects:	Folklore and the Internet.