The Last Laugh: Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age

by Trevor J. Blank

Book Overview

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 laughter and black humor. If in the past this snarky folklore may have been shared among friends and uttered behind closed doors, today the Internet's ubiquity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299292045
• ISBN13: 9780299292041
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"