Introduction: Mad History of the World  – Hannu Salmi, University of Turku

PART I: COMEDIANS AND COMIC REPRESENTATIONS

Buster Keaton’s Comedies of Southern History:
Our Hospitality and
The General – Susan E. Linville, University of Denver

From Ideal Husbands to Berserk Gargoyles: Comic Representations of the British Past in the 1950s and 1960s – Harri Kilpi, University of Helsinki

Comedians and Romance: History and Humour in Kalabalik – David Ludvigsson, University of Uppsala

Woody Allen and History – Maurice Yawocar, University of Calgary

PART II: NO LAUGHING MATTER

No Laughing Matter? Comedy and The Spanish Civil War – David Archibald, University of Glasgow

A Killer Joke? World War Two in Post-War British Television and Film Comedy – Rami Mähkä, University of Turku

“Holocaust-Nostalgia”, Humor and Irony: The Case of Pizza in Auschwitz – Hagai Dagan, Sapir College

Comedy and Counter-history – Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburg

Hannu Salmi is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku and director of the International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC). He is the author of, for example, Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Cultural History (2008) and the editor of Historical Comedy On Screen: Subverting History with Humour (2011).