The Cultural Set Up of Comedy

Julie Webber

Description

How do various forms of comedy – including stand-up, satire, and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality transformed through comedic performances on social media? The Cultural Set Up of Comedy seeks to answer these questions by examining comedic performances by Chris Rock and Louis C.K., news parodies The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, the role of satire in the Arab Spring and the groundbreaking performances by women in Bridesmaids. Breaking with the usual cultural studies debates over how to conceptualize youth, the book instead focuses on the comedic cultural and political scripts that frame them.

 

Chapter 1: The Cultural Set Up of Comedy 

Chapter 2: Re-signifying the F-word: Comedy as Political Resistance or Entrenchment? 

Chapter 3: Breaking the ‘Crass Ceiling’: Women as Comedians 

Chapter 4: The Tone of Political Comedy in The Daily Show and The Colbert Report

Chapter 5: Globalizing Political Humor 

Conclusion: After Comedy

Sujets

• Energie & environnement
• General
• Engineering
• Technology
• General officer
• Sciences et techniques
• Performing Arts
• Power Resources

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 09 novembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783201457
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

Extrait

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AFFECTIVE POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES POST 9/11

JuLie WEbbEr

The Cultural Set Up o Comedy

The Cultural Set Up o Comedy Afective Politics in the United States Post 9/11

Julie Webber

intellectBristol, UK / Chicago, USA

First published in the UK in 2013 by Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK

First published in the USA in 2013 by Intellect, The University o Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Copyright © 2013 Intellect Ltd

All rights reserved. No part o this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any orm or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.

A catalogue record or this book is available rom the British Library.

Series: Cultural Studies Toward Transormative Curriculum and Pedagogy Series ISSN: 2049-4025 Cover designer: Stephanie Sarlos Copy-editor: Michael Eckhardt Production managers: Melanie Marshall and Tom Newman Typesetting: Contentra Technologies

Print ISBN: 978-1-78320-031-3 ePDF ISBN: 978-1-78320-145-7 ePub ISBN: 978-1-78320-144-0

Printed and bound by Hobbs the Printers Ltd, UK

Contents

Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Cultural Set Up of Comedy Chapter 2: Resignifying the Fword: Comedy as Political Resistance or Entrenchment? Chapter 3: Breaking the ‘Crass Ceiling’: Women as Comedians Chapter 4: The Tone of Political Comedy in The Daily Show and The Colbert Report Chapter 5: Globalizing Political Humor Conclusion: After Comedy

Bibliography Index

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51 75

107 151 185 191 211

Acknowledgments

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Chapter 1

The Cultural Set Up o Comedy