Jokes and Targets

by Christie Davies

Jokes and Targets takes up an appealing and entertaining topic--the social and historical origins of jokes about familiar targets such as rustics, Jewish spouses, used car salesmen, and dumb blondes. Christie Davies explains why political jokes flourished in the Soviet Union, why Europeans tell jokes about American lawyers but not about their own lawyers, and why sex jokes often refer to France rather than to other countries. One of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253223024
• ISBN13: 9780253223029
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher