Performing Gender and Comedy
Author: Shannon Eileen Hengen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789056995409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Performing Gender and Comedy
Author: Shannon Hengen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 113438565X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. This lively volume explores comedy as a place where gender and sexuality, through performance, challenge sexist and heteronormative forces in Western culture. The contributors investigate the effects of gender, sexuality, sexual identity, race, class and nationality on humor and comedic performance. Each chapter, distinct in its voice and content, addresses how particular historical periods seem to affect who laughs at what, why, and with what consequences. This book not only spans a broad range of historical and literary periods, it also engages in a critical conversation with past and present thinkers to articulate the political, cultural and social effects of comedy.
Performing Marginality
Author: Joanne R. Gilbert
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780814328033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn academic study of stand-up comedy performed by females. This will aid in the understanding of power structures in our society.
Comic Politics
Author: Nicole Matthews
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780719055034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLes Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today, his multi-faceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political and cultural debate. The only full critical study of Murray's work available, Steven Matthews provides a complete picture of his career to date, from its early parables of national emergence to the working man's epic encounter with the major events of the twentieth century, Fredy Neptune. Provides detailed readings of key poems, as well as literary and cultural contexts for the rapid shifts in style and subject matter Murray has made from collection to collection. Gives an overview of Murray's place within Australian literature and national thought.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Author: Martin Revermann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-12
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 0521760283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
We Killed
Author: Yael Kohen
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0374287236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes to piece together an oral history about the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy.
The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920
Author: Sam Beale
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-09-04
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 3030479412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880–1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British comic traditions. Focusing on the under-researched female ‘serio-comic’, the study includes six micro-histories detailing the acts of Ada Lundberg, Bessie Bellwood, Maidie Scott, Vesta Victoria, Marie Lloyd and Nellie Wallace. Uniquely for women in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, these pioneering performers had public voices. The extent to which their comedy challenged Victorian and Edwardian perceptions of women is revealed through explorations of how they connected with popular audiences while also avoiding censorship. Their use of techniques such as comic irony and stereotyping, self-deprecation, and comic innuendo are considered alongside the work of contemporary stand-up comedians and performance artists including Bridget Christie, Bryony Kimmings, Sara Pascoe, Shazia Mirza and Sarah Silverman.
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies
Author: George Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 0195370937
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Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy
Author: John Alberti
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-11
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1136222898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified theory of gender role change in the movies that combines the insights of both poststructuralist gender and narrative genre theory, avoiding binary approaches to the study of gender representation. He establishes the current "crises" in both gender representation and genre development within romantic comedies as examples of experimentation and change towards narratives that feature more egalitarian and less essentialist constructions of gender.
Cracking Up
Author: Katelyn Hale Wood
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2021-06
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1609387724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaughter in the Archives: Jackie "Moms" Mabley -- I Love You Bitches Back: Spect-Actors and Affective Freedom in I Coulda Been Your Cellmate! -- The Black Queer Citizenship of Wanda Sykes -- Contemporary Truth-Tellers: A New Cohort of Black Feminist Comics -- Conclusion.
