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Patrice Oppliger is Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at Boston University, USA. Her most recent book is Tweencoms Girls: Gender and Adolescence in Disney and Nickelodeon Sitcoms.
Eric Shouse is Associate Professor of Communication at East Carolina University, USA. His work has been published in HUMOR, Comedy Studies, and Text and Performance Quarterly.
Combines arguments and personal experiences from a broad range of contributors, including scholars and stand-up performers
Avoids and complicates the stereotype of tragic comedians or sad clowns to explore the nuances of 'darkness' in comedy
Addresses the paradox of comedy and tragedy
I. Darkness on Stage.- I Kinda Like It When A Lotta People Die: George Carlin and the Comedy of Disaster (Steven S. Kapica, Ph.D.).- Comedy Is Not Pretty: Steve Martin's Kitsch as Masochistic Fantasy (Sean Springer, Ph.D.).- Stand-up Comedy as a Form of Therapy (Cait Hogan, Stand-Up Comedian).- II. The Dark Side of Addiction.- Wasted Youth: Temporalities of Addiction and Comic Abjection (Phil Scepanski, Ph.D.).- Food Addiction in the Lives and Works of Stand-up Comedians (Carey Marie Noland, Ph.D.).- III. Are Comedians Really So Dark?.- Autobiography is a Funny Thing (Eddie Naessens, Ph.D.).- Humor Production and Perceptions of Psychological Health (A. Peter McGraw, Ph.D., Erin Percival Carter, Ph.D. Candidate, and Jennifer Harman, Ph.D.).- IV. The Dark Side of the Comedy Business.- How to Legally Determine that a Joke is Prejudicial? The Uneasy Case of Canadian Comedian Mike Ward (Christelle Paré, Ph.D.).- Why the Relentless Pursuit of the Laughter of Strangers? (Sheila Lintott, Ph.D.).- Heckling, Physical Violence, and Realistic Death Threats: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy (Eric Shouse, Ph.D.)
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
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Genre: | Soziologie |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Seiten: | 332 |
Reihe: | Palgrave Studies in Comedy |
Inhalt: |
ix
320 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 320 p. 1 illus. |
ISBN-13: | 9783030372132 |
ISBN-10: | 3030372138 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | HC runder Rücken kaschiert |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Redaktion: |
Shouse, Eric
Oppliger, Patrice A. |
Herausgeber: | Patrice A Oppliger/Eric Shouse |
Auflage: | 1st ed. 2020 |
Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in Comedy |
Maße: | 216 x 153 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Eric Shouse (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.04.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,543 kg |
Patrice Oppliger is Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at Boston University, USA. Her most recent book is Tweencoms Girls: Gender and Adolescence in Disney and Nickelodeon Sitcoms.
Eric Shouse is Associate Professor of Communication at East Carolina University, USA. His work has been published in HUMOR, Comedy Studies, and Text and Performance Quarterly.
Combines arguments and personal experiences from a broad range of contributors, including scholars and stand-up performers
Avoids and complicates the stereotype of tragic comedians or sad clowns to explore the nuances of 'darkness' in comedy
Addresses the paradox of comedy and tragedy
I. Darkness on Stage.- I Kinda Like It When A Lotta People Die: George Carlin and the Comedy of Disaster (Steven S. Kapica, Ph.D.).- Comedy Is Not Pretty: Steve Martin's Kitsch as Masochistic Fantasy (Sean Springer, Ph.D.).- Stand-up Comedy as a Form of Therapy (Cait Hogan, Stand-Up Comedian).- II. The Dark Side of Addiction.- Wasted Youth: Temporalities of Addiction and Comic Abjection (Phil Scepanski, Ph.D.).- Food Addiction in the Lives and Works of Stand-up Comedians (Carey Marie Noland, Ph.D.).- III. Are Comedians Really So Dark?.- Autobiography is a Funny Thing (Eddie Naessens, Ph.D.).- Humor Production and Perceptions of Psychological Health (A. Peter McGraw, Ph.D., Erin Percival Carter, Ph.D. Candidate, and Jennifer Harman, Ph.D.).- IV. The Dark Side of the Comedy Business.- How to Legally Determine that a Joke is Prejudicial? The Uneasy Case of Canadian Comedian Mike Ward (Christelle Paré, Ph.D.).- Why the Relentless Pursuit of the Laughter of Strangers? (Sheila Lintott, Ph.D.).- Heckling, Physical Violence, and Realistic Death Threats: The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy (Eric Shouse, Ph.D.)
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
---|---|
Genre: | Soziologie |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Buch |
Seiten: | 332 |
Reihe: | Palgrave Studies in Comedy |
Inhalt: |
ix
320 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 320 p. 1 illus. |
ISBN-13: | 9783030372132 |
ISBN-10: | 3030372138 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | HC runder Rücken kaschiert |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Redaktion: |
Shouse, Eric
Oppliger, Patrice A. |
Herausgeber: | Patrice A Oppliger/Eric Shouse |
Auflage: | 1st ed. 2020 |
Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in Comedy |
Maße: | 216 x 153 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Eric Shouse (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.04.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,543 kg |