David Mckain: 2 books
Spellbound
Growing Up in God's Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In this soul-piercing memoir, David McKain penetrates the secret world of a poor boy coming of age on his own in "God's Country," a small oil-drilling town in the Allegheny Mountains during the 1940s and 1950s. His devoutly religious parents, overwhelmed by their own struggles, relinquished their...
The Joke Is on Us
Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet...