This book is a guide to humor that can break down the communication barriers between professors and students, who can be so different that they can seem to come from different planets. The chapters ...are: (1) "Why Use Humor?"; (2) "Anatomy of Humor"; (3) "Types and Forms of Humor"; (4) "Sources of Humorous Material"; (5) "Delivering Humor Effectively"; (6) "Using Humor in the Classroom"; (7) "Using Humor in Professional Presentations"; and (8) "Using Humor in Publications and Communications." (Contains 119 references.) (SLD)
En este trabajo reflexionamos sobre una nueva tendencia característica de los últimos años de emplear carteles de cine de películas clásicas y contemporáneas para ejercer una crítica política en ...clave humorística. A partir de herramientas digitales como Photoshop, los propios espectadores/usuarios están reimaginando y resignificando el tradicional cartel cinematográfico como una nueva forma de humor gráfico que retrata ingeniosamente la actualidad política de un país. En este trabajo nos detenemos en el caso de España, donde es posible observar varios ejemplos de este tipo de carteles manipulados digitalmente mediante los cuales los propios usuarios -y no ya únicamente los dibujantes y medios tradicionales- están retratando y denunciando la actualidad política española a través del humor.
Pese al creciente uso del humor en la publicidad, el humor gráfico sigue siendo un elemento extraño. Este trabajo analiza la campaña que el dibujante gallego Kiko da Silva hizo para el Colegio de ...Dentistas de Pontevedra y Ourense en 2015 con el fin de advertir a la población de los posibles riesgos de las nuevas franquicias dentales y promocionar como alternativa a los dentistas «de toda la vida». Se ha revisado parte de la bibliografía sobre el humor en la publicidad, se han analizado los dos anuncios de la campaña y se ha entrevistado tanto al humorista que la ejecutó como a los publicistas que la diseñaron. Se ha llegado a la conclusión de que las tiras ayudaron a fijar la atención del lector y a hacerle reflexionar sobre el tema tratado.
This delightful, thought-provoking book tackles head-on the assumption that laughter and humour are necessarily good in themselves. The author proposes a social theory that places humour central to ...social life. Billig argues that all cultures use ridicule as a disciplinary means to uphold norms of conduct and conventions of meaning.
Vorarbeit zur Laserkühlung Loos, Andreas
Physik in unserer Zeit,
05/2019, Letnik:
50, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Als kühl wird er beschrieben, reserviert, „wenngleich offen und ohne Verstellung“, auch als „sehr genial und liebenswert“. Sein Humor klingt tatsächlich staubtrocken. Als Assistent erhält er für die ...Experimentalphysik‐Vorlesung die Aufgabe, einen Glasblock zu durchbohren, mit dem Ziel, feine Drähte durchzuziehen, um anschließend mit Hochspannung ein Loch in den Block zu sprengen. Jahre später erzählt er einem Kollegen: Die Sprengung im Hörsaal sei die Mühe des Bohrens wahrlich nicht wert gewesen. (Immerhin war sie wohl ein Kracher, was man von der Anekdote nicht sagen kann.)
When wielded by the white majority, ethnic humor can be used to ridicule and demean marginalized groups. In the hands of ethnic minorities themselves, ethnic humor can work as a site of community ...building and resistance. In nearly all cases, however, ethnic humor can serve as a window through which to examine the complexities of American race relations. InEthnic Humor in Multiethnic America, David Gillota explores the ways in which contemporary comic works both reflect and participate in national conversations about race and ethnicity.Gillota investigates the manner in which various humorists respond to multiculturalism and the increasing diversity of the American population. Rather than looking at one or two ethnic groups at a time-as is common scholarly practice-the book focuses on the interplay between humorists from different ethnic communities. While some comic texts project a fantasy world in which diverse ethnic characters coexist in a rarely disputed harmony, others genuinely engage with the complexities and contradictions of multiethnic America.The first chapter focuses on African American comedy with a discussion of such humorists as Paul Mooney and Chris Rock, who tend to reinforce a black/white vision of American race relations. This approach is contrasted to the comedy of Dave Chappelle, who looks beyond black and white and uses his humor to place blackness within a much wider multiethnic context.Chapter 2 concentrates primarily on the Jewish humorists Sarah Silverman, Larry David, and Sacha Baron Cohen-three artists who use their personas to explore the peculiar position of contemporary Jews who exist in a middle space between white and other.In chapter 3, Gillota discusses different humorous constructions of whiteness, from a detailed analysis ofSouth Parkto "Blue Collar Comedy" and the blogStuff White People Like.Chapter 4 is focused on the manner in which animated children's film and the network situation comedy often project simplified and harmonious visions of diversity. In contrast, chapter 5 considers how many recent works, such asHarold and Kumar Go to White Castleand the Showtime seriesWeeds, engage with diversity in more complex and productive ways.
Grab those paddles. Charge 300. Clear! "Ouch!" Now how do you feel? "Great!" Humor can be used as a systematic teaching or assessment tool in your classroom and course Web site. It can shock students ...to attention and bring deadly, boring course content to life. Since some students have the attention span of goat cheese, we need to find creative online and offline techniques to hook them, engage their emotions, and focus their minds and eyeballs on learning. This book offers numerous techniques on how to effectively use humor in lectures and in-class activities, printed materials, course Web sites and course tests and exams.These techniques can convert any course into an adult version of Sesame Street. "If Dr. Hannibal Lecter ate books, this one would make a tasty hors d' oeuvre." -- Clarice Starling"A non-page-turning marvel...I could stop reading at any point and know I 'm not missing anything." -- Forrest Gump"Not as much fun as Quidditch, but would be required reading for faculty at the Hogwarts School." -- Harry Potter"How did you get this book published? Read my letters: YOUR KNOT FUNY!" -- Bart Simpson
Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain's reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to ...national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.