Who Can Take a Joke? Life of Brian, Four Lions, and Religious “Humour Scandals”
Why did Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) unleash a storm of protest and accusations of blasphemy on its release, what Giselinde Kuipers calls a “humour scandal,’’ while Chris Morris’s satire about British Jihadi terrorists, Four Lions (2010), barely raised an eyebrow? A focus on a media represent...
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Language: | English |
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University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion
[2014]
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Relegere
Year: 2014, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 177-206 |
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Free Speech
B Islamism B Blasphemy B Satire B Islamophobia B Humour scandals |
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