...Genres of Humor This is the first of two chapters about comedic genres. It first explains that, rather than a government-controlled soapbox that repelled humor, much of socialist TV programming was actually perceived by audiences as comic because socialism itself was absurdly comical...

... Chapter 2 examines digital humor practices on the Chinese internet during SARS and argues for the community-building and sociality-affirming functions of nonpolitics-driven epidemic humor. The chapter explores how epidemic humor was pervasive across both personal digitized networks and public...

... and stories by Bobby Holcomb, André Marere, Cronos, THS!, Alexandre Moeava Ata, and Albert Wendt, this chapter explores how antinuclear artists and writers from Tahiti and Samoa have addressed this plague. These artists stand out for their choice to talk about death and diseases by turning to humor, parody...

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...Front Matter Tomorrowing collects nearly twenty years of Terry Bisson's long-running This Month in History science fiction column for Locus magazine, a humorous imagination of future history, presented as short vignettes memorializing anniversaries of fictional events. science fiction...

... This is the first of two chapters about comedic genres. It first explains that, rather than a government-controlled soapbox that repelled humor, much of socialist TV programming was actually perceived by audiences as comic because socialism itself was absurdly comical. Television...