A Decade of Dark Humor - How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America

Analyses ways in which popular and visual culture used humour -in a variety of forms - to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001, and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humour and irony on both media discourse and tangible political reality.