Author : Shannon Eileen Hengen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789056995409
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Joanne R. Gilbert
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814328033
An academic study of stand-up comedy performed by females. This will aid in the understanding of power structures in our society.
Author : Shannon Hengen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134385587
First 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.
Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521760283
This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author : Nicole Matthews
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780719055034
Les 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.
Author : Delia Chiaro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317804155
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and psychology. Since then, both fields have flourished, but largely independently. This book draws together and focuses the work of scholars from diverse disciplines on intersections of gender and humor, giving voice to approaches in disciplines such as film, television, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and popular culture.
Author : Sam Beale
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3030479412
This 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.
Author : George Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195370937
V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories
Author : Yael Kohen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374287236
Kohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes to piece together an oral history about the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy.
Author : Katelyn Hale Wood
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1609387724
Laughter 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.
