The untold help of harmful visual jokes : no funny business /

The untold help of harmful visual jokes : no funny business / Mary Gregg.

This book argues that when visual jokes are harmful, they harm in a specific way: a subject's personhood is revoked in a way that differs both in kind and degree depending on whether that person is depicted or described. Such revocation can occur in every role and any stage within the joke'...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Gregg, Mary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]
Series:Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Wit and humor, Pictorial > Moral and ethical aspects.
Comic, The, in art > Moral and ethical aspects.
Wit and humor, Pictorial > Philosophy.
Comic, The, in art > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Harmful Jokes
  • 2. The Unique Unspoken Discourse of Visual Jokes
  • 3. The Harm of Harmful Visual Jokes
  • 4. Reconciliation and Re-empowerment
  • 5. A Brief Conclusion.

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