Madeline Lane-McKinley: Comedy Against Work

Cover: 9781942173700 | Comedy Against Work | Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

"When work is slowly killing us and destroying the planet and, at the same time, something impossible to imagine life without, Lane-McKinley considers the possibility of comedy as a revolutionary practice. By appealing to laughter-what Walter Benjamin called the most "revolutionary emotion of the masses," or as Audre Lorde put it, the "open and fearless underlining" of our capacity for joy-we can counteract many of our shared miseries under capitalism, including our relationship to work. But to think through these revolutionary aspects of comedy as a practice also involves troubling comedy's relationship to the global right turn of the last decade. Stand-up comedy's claims to the artistic freedom of hate speech in comedy represent a fascistic current of our world today, blurring the boundaries between left and "alt" right. Against this current, the book draws from a tradition of feminist critical utopianism, Marxist-feminism, and contemporary cultural criticism to reflect on an anti-fascist poetics of comedy, grounded in a critique of work"--

Über den Autor

Madeline Lane-McKinley is a writer, professor, and Marxist-feminist with a PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a founding member of Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The New Inquiry, Entropy, GUTS, and Cultural Politics. She is also the author of the chapbook Dear Z and a contributor to The Museum of Capitalism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Work is a Joke

Part One: Comedy and the World of Work

1 Watching Work on TV

2 The Stand-Up Artist in the Age of Gigification

Part Two: Gender at Work

3 Comediennes

4 The Trouble With 'Authenticity'

5 On Jokesterism

6 Ode to Killjoys

Part Three: Comedy and Care Crisis

7 Comedy Under Lockdown: Housework and Utopian Longing

8 Quieting the World of Work

9 Care, Laughter, and the Constraints of Capitalist Life

Conclusion: Comedy as Utopian Method

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Theater & Film
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781942173700
ISBN-10:	1942173709
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lane-McKinley, Madeline
Hersteller:	Common Notions
Maße:	213 x 137 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Madeline Lane-McKinley
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.01.2023
Gewicht:	0,308 kg

Artikel-ID: 121162878