Laughter and ridicule : towards a social critique of humour / Michael Billig.
F̀rom Thomas Hobbes' fear of the power of laughter to the compulsory, packaged "fun" of the contemporary mass media, Billig takes the reader on a stimulating tour of the strange world of humour. Both a significant work of scholarship and a novel contribution to the understanding of th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Thousand Oaks :
Sage,
2005.
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| Series: | Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
