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| Author | : Shannon Hengen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2014-01-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 113438565X |
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 | : Joanne R. Gilbert |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Martin Revermann |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 523 |
| Release | : 2014-06-12 |
| Genre | : 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 |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Gail Finney |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2014-07-10 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1134304730 |
First Published in 1994. Look Who's Laughing belies the notion that in a joke the only place for a woman is in the butt, Rather than analysing women's humor in isolation, Gail Finney and twenty scholars map the terrain that the genders share and the areas that each hold exclusively. Their essays investigate witty heroines, sexual parodies, domestic humor and romantic power. They focus on comic drama and fiction, stand-up comedy, cartoons, and film describing the roles gender has played in the creation, reception and interpretation of comedy from the sixteenth century to present. They consider works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Zora Neale Hurston and Virginia Woolf, whilst discussing characters such as V.I. Warshawski, Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Bennet. The book's emphasis on comedy's diverse sources uncovers critical prejudices and defines new contexts enabling men and women to understand more about each other's attitudes towards humor, its means and ends.
| Author | : Yael Kohen |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2012-10-16 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Sam Beale |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2020-09-04 |
| Genre | : 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 |
| Total Pages | : 617 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0195370937 |
V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories
| Author | : John Alberti |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2013-09-11 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1136222898 |
This 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.
| Author | : Katelyn Hale Wood |
| Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2021-06 |
| Genre | : 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.
