Description: A comprehensive study of comedy as social discourse and how comedians influence public opinion
Brief description: Peter C. Kunze is visiting assistant professor of communication at Tulane University. He is editor or coeditor of multiple publications, including The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon; American-Australian Cinema: Transnational Connections; Conversations with Maurice Sendak; and Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: Taking a Stand makes a valuable addition to many disciplines, from media studies to gender studies to communication to sociology, not just for the wide breadth of its topics and analysis, but also for the considerable skill with which each chapter is crafted.--Ted Gournelos, author of Popular Culture and the Future of Politics: Cultural Studies and the Tao of "South Park"