Jokes that follow mass-mediated disasters in a global electronic age / Christie Davies
Making a big apple crumble: the role of humor in constructing a global response to disaster / Bill Ellis
Creating situations: practical jokes and the revival of the dead in Irish tradition / Ilana Harlow
Tricks and fun: subversive pleasures at Newfoundland wakes / Peter Narváez
"Pardon me for not standing": modern America graveyard humor / Richard E. Meyer
Wishes come true: designing the Greenwich Village Halloween parade / Jack Kugelmass
Making merry with death: iconic humor in Mexico's Day of the Dead / Kristin Congdon
Calaveras: literary humor in Mexico's Day of the Dead / Stanley Brandes
Exit laughing: death and laughter in Los Angeles and Port-au-Prince / Donald J. Cosentino
Dancing skeletons: the subversion of death among deadheads / LuAnne K. Roth
Traditional narrative, popular aesthetics, Weekend at Bernie's, and vernacular cinema / Mikel Koven.