Editorial: “Anything goes?”
Mike Lloyd
Abstract Editorial: “Anything goes?” Editorial: “Anything Goes?” References Billig, M. (2005). Laughter and Ridicule. London: Sage. Davies, C. (1998). Jokes and Their Relations to Society.
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Mad rant or “taking the piss?”: A case study of when attempts at humour go wrong
Bronwyn McGovern
Abstract In 2010, Brother a well-known local identity living on a busy street corner in Wellington, told court appointed psychiatrists he boogied with the
When the quip hits the fan: What cartoon complaints reveal about changes in societal attitudes to race and ethnicity
Susan E. Foster
Abstract A study of editorial cartoons published over the last 40 years, that have been the subject of complaint to the New Zealand Press Council
Binders full of LOLitics: Political humour, internet memes, and play in the 2012 US Presidential Election (and beyond)
Geniesa Tay
Abstract This paper examines the phenomenon of humorous Internet memes within the context of news and political culture, sometimes referred to as LOLitics. LOLitics are
Breaking the mainstream mold: The birth of a local political cartoonist in post-3.11 Japan
Ronald Stewart
Abstract This paper introduces the Disaster Picture-Diary political cartoons of Asakura Yūzō which appear in the Japanese regional newspaper Fukushima Minpō. After the so-called 3.11
Too far West (dangerous curves ahead)
Will Visconti
Abstract In a career that lasted over eighty years, the performances of Mae West were famous, or infamous, for their power to shock, their transgression
Book review: Chiaro, D. (ed). (2010). Translation, Humour and the Media, Volume 2. London and New York: Continuum. 259 pp.
Margherita Dore
Abstract Book review: Chiaro, D. (ed). (2010). Translation, Humour and the Media, Volume 2. London and New York: Continuum. 259 pp. References Attardo, S. (1994).
List of reviewers for Volume 1 (2013) and 2 (2014)
EJHR Editorial Team
Abstract List of reviewers (in alphabetical order) for Volume 1 (2013) and 2 (2014)
Book review: Amir, L. B. (2014). Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy: Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 393 pp.
Andrzej Pawelec
Abstract Humour as a supreme virtue References Amir, L. B. (2013). ‘Philosophy’s attitude towards the comic. A re-evaluation’. European Journal of Humour Research 1 (1),
On going too far
Moira Marsh
Abstract In the vernacular ideology of humour there are definite ideas about where the limits of joke acceptability lie. In practice, many joke performances seem
Not quiet on the Tasman front? The trans-Tasman rivalry in New Zealand’s Great War cartoons
Steven Loveridge
Abstract There is a fascinating idiosyncrasy within New Zealand cartoonist’s depiction of Australia during the Great War. Running parallel to comradely images of fresh-faced ANZACs
Book review: Ruiz Gurillo, L. & Alvarado Ortega, M. B. (eds). (2013). Irony and Humor: From Pragmatics to Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. vi+270 pp.
Jorge Fernández Jaén
Abstract Book review: Ruiz Gurillo, L. & Alvarado Ortega, M. B. (eds). (2013). Irony and Humor: From Pragmatics to Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. vi+270 pp.
Understanding obscenity and offensive humour: What’s funny?
Rohit Revi
Abstract Humourisation of the offensive occupies a position of distinctive prominence in our study of how we experience humour. The offensive is often found to
Humour and enjoyment reducers in cinema and theatre comedy
Arie Sover
Abstract In this research, I am trying to define a new concept which I shall call Enjoyment Reducer, referring to verbal or visual content, incorporated
