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James Webber deposited From the Barber to the Beautiful: examining American collective memory of the Holocaust through comedy. in the group
Humour Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis essay argues that an examination of comedy in the USA reveals the extent to which collective memory of the Holocaust evolved during the 20th and early 21st centuries. Using sources taken from the domain of mainstream American comedy since the 1930s, the analysis evidences how, following an initial reluctance to represent the genocide within…[Read more]
