Hannu Salmi is professor of cultural history at the University of Turku in Finland and coeditor of the series Studies on Popular Culture, also published by Intellect.

• 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

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