Michael Epp

Biographic Data

ID5407438
NAMEMichael Epp
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEEpp
SIGNATUREEPP M
AFFILIATIONSTrent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
ORCID0000-0001-9807-5999
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • How to Read a Drawer

    Michael EppARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2025References: 6

    This paper engages the stories, jokes, anecdotes and illustrations of a single “Editor’s Drawer” from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in the 1890s. Modulating between description, interpretation, and theorization, I risk pedantry in order to demonstrate the relations between humour and advertising during an important phase of the emergence of mass culture. The paper concludes by concentrating on how two readers—one a US traveling ad salesman, the o…

  • Funny How? Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor

    Michael EppARTICLEStudies in American Humor2022

    Funny How? seeks to demonstrate what makes a great sketch funny. The simplicity of the book’s main goal is its great virtue and informs its best part: its summaries of a dozen and more sketches performed by a wide variety of comedians. Guided by a broad sense of what constitutes sketch comedy, Clayton picked these sketches because he loves them. This makes good sense, since the point of the book is to talk straightforwardly about what makes thing…

  • Freedom in Laughter

    Michael EppARTICLEStudies in American Humor2021

  • Film, Comedy, and Disability

    Michael EppARTICLEStudies in American Humor2020

    This book is published in Routledge's Interdis- ciplinary Disability Studies series, which seeks to extend “interdisciplinary dialogue between disability studies and other fields by asking how disability studies can influence a particular field” (ii). Although this goal is a challenging and important one, unfortunately, Film, Comedy, and Disability adds little to our understanding of humor or to what happens when disability and comedy meet in fil…

  • Introduction—Violent Labour in the Americas

    Michael EppARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2020References: 2

  • Durable Public Feelings

    Michael EppARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2011References: 11

    Exploring the durability of feelings, and the relationship of feelings to publics, the first part of this paper maintains that the multiplicity of contradictory means for engaging the terms “public” and “feelings” indexes precisely the conflicts that are constitutive of publics and feelings. The fights over terminology, I argue, are not something to resolve but something to understand, as part of what makes publics and feelings the important, exc…

  • Introduction

    Michael EppARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2011

  • Introduction

    Michael Epp, Michael H EppARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2009

  • TheTraffic in Affect

    Michael Epp, Michael H EppARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2006

    After calling for a major re-theorization of the relations in mass culture between humour, the politics of affect, and the stereotype, I engage these relations through a case study of the articulation of women’s rights with the traffic in affect. The argument focuses on late-nineteenth-century

  • Raising Minstrelsy

    Michael Epp, Michael H EppARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies2003Cited by: 4References: 1

    How much does blackface minstrelsy – the first form of American mass culture – share in modern depictions of blackness in popular television and cinema? What (if anything) can be done about the form’s disturbing legacy? Scholarly criticism over the past decade has grappled with these questions to uncertain effect and with limited success, sometimes attempting to recover a lost minstrelsy that might again produce performances that resist racist he…