The anthology Gender and Humor: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives, edited by Delia Chiaro and Raffaella Baccolini, features eighteen scholarly essays with an introduction and conclusion by Chiaro and Baccolini. This book is part of the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies Series, which features a number of anthologies across many subjects and disciplines.
Chiaro and Baccolini are professors at the University of Bologna, Italy, and each has an impressive array of publications on the subjects of gender and humor. Here, they have gathered an equally impressive collection of writing at the intersection of these academic fields. These works of scholarship focus on a variety of subjects from film and television, such as Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton & Ferris, 2006) and The Catherine Tate Show (BBC, 2004–2009) to stand-up comedians such as Judy Tenuta, to sketch comedy culture in Japan. The “interdisciplinary” in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives derives from...
