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.)
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.
Political humour is employed to define the boundaries between opposing political groups and to express discontent against politicians and political acts. The sociopolitical context of its production ...and circulation not only influences its form, content, functions, and targets, but also determines whether it will be accepted, banned, or manipulated to serve the political agendas of certain groups. Hence, political humour becomes a ritual site where political identities are constantly constructed and (re)negotiated. Drawing on studies coming from different sociocultural communities, the authors underline the variety of humorous genres and communicative functions related to political humour, while they point out that humour research needs to look beyond the metapragmatic stereotype often surrounding the use of humour in politics.
•We studied the Covid-19 humor appreciation during Italy's lockdown in March 2020.•Humor inspired by Covid-19 showed a mark of aversiveness, but not of funniness.•With increasing age and in women, ...Covid-19 humor was judged more aversive.•The use of humor as a coping mechanism increased the appreciation of Covid-19 humor.•Perceived risk of contagion raised the disturbing potential of Covid-19 humor.
We often see an upsurge of humor inspired by tragic circumstances: this happened also during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak. However, little is known about the emotional response to tragedy-triggered humor, let alone Covid-19 humor. With a large-scale survey completed during the early stages of Italy's lockdown, we studied the appreciation (funniness and aversiveness) of different formats of Covid-19 humor shared on social media. Results of an analysis of the role of demographic, personality, and psychological distance factors with linear mixed models showed that Covid-19 humor lacks a “signature” of funniness, but displays a mark of aversiveness. Among demographics, age and gender were key factors: with increasing age and in women, Covid-19 humor was judged as more aversive. Individuals using humor to cope with uneasy circumstances judged Covid-19 humor as funnier and less aversive. Furthermore, the perceived risk of infection amplified Covid-19 humor aversiveness, while kilometrical distance from the first Italian contagion hotspot raised the amusement in global terms. These findings expand our knowledge about dark humor and should raise awareness of the great variation in the emotional impact of Covid-19 humor and of the need to ponder where and with whom to share the laugh about the pandemic.
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