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02618aam a22004098i 4500 001 EADCD752939111E7A673E95E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170907010029 008 170426s2017 ilu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017020357 020 $a 0810135817 020 $a 9780810135819 020 $a 0810135809 020 $a 9780810135802 035 $a (OCoLC)968483186 040 $a INU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c INU $d DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BH301 C7 M383 2017 100 1 $a McGowan, Todd, $e author. 245 10 $a Only a joke can save us : $b a theory of comedy / $c Todd McGowan. 263 $a 1709 264 1 $a Evanston, Ill. : $b Northwestern University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 215 pages cm 490 1 $a Diaeresis 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Conclusion : speculation and levity. $t Lack and excess -- $t Theory and opposition -- $t Tragedy and pathos -- $t Philosophy and the finite -- $t Signification and desire -- $t Distance and proximity -- $t Outside and inside -- $t Ideology and equality -- $t Conclusion : speculation and levity. 520 $a "Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humor in philosophy, Todd McGowan locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of the opposing concepts lack and excess. After reviewing the treatment of comedy in the work of philosophers as varied as Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, McGowan, working in a psychoanalytic framework, demonstrates that comedy results from the deployment of lack and excess, whether in contrast, juxtaposition, or interplay. Illustrating the power and flexibility of this framework with analyses of films ranging from Buster Keaton and Marx Brothers classics to Dr. Strangelove and Groundhog Day, McGowan shows how humor can reveal gaps in being and gaps in social order. Scholarly yet lively and readable, Only a Joke Can Save Us is a groundbreaking examination of the enigmatic yet endlessly fascinating experience of humor and comedy."--Publisher's summary. 650 0 $a Comic, The. 650 0 $a Comedy. 650 0 $a Comedy $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Comedy films $x History and criticism. 830 0 $a Diaeresis. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020025124.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905041647.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EADCD752939111E7A673E95E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search