Critical laughter: Humor, popular culture and Israeli Holocaust commemoration

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 561-579

  Zandberg, Eyal ^a  

^a NETANYA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Holocaust remembrance; Satire; Television sketches; Third generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745321853     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443706065029     Document Type: Review

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