A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-44083-8 (ISBN)

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Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age. It covers a range of forms and examples from 1920 to the present day, including plays, film, television comedy, live comedy, and comedy on social media. It argues that the period covered was marked by an explosion of comic forms and a flowering of comic creativity across a range of media. From the communal watching of silent films at the start of the period, to the use of Twitter and other online platforms to share and comment on comedy, technology has brought about significant changes in its form, consumption, and social effects. As comic forms have shifted and developed, so too have attitudes to what comedy can and cannot do. This study considers its role in entertainment and in provoking consideration of a range of social and political topics.

Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter, and ethics. These eight different approaches to comedy add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.

Louise Peacock is Associate Professor of Drama in the School of Arts, Design and Humanities at De Montfort University, UK.

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Notes on Contributors
Series Preface

Introduction, Louise Peacock (De Montfort University, UK)

1. Form, Brett Mills (University of East Anglia, UK)
2. Theory, Peter Buse (University of Liverpool, UK)
3. Praxis: ‘If You Laugh at Something, Then I’ll Potentially Keep It’: The Praxis of Live Comedy, Oliver Double (University of Kent, UK)
4. Identity: Laughs Last—Gender, Power, and Comic Identity, Joanne Gilbert (Alma College, USA)
5. The Body, Louise Peacock (De Montfort University, UK)
6. Politics and Power, Chris Vognar (Independent scholar, USA)
7. Laughter, Eric Weitz (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
8. Ethics, Michael Pickering (Loughborough University, UK)

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References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Professor Andrew McConnell Stott, Professor Eric Weitz
Zusatzinfo	14 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-44083-3 / 1350440833
ISBN-13	978-1-350-44083-8 / 9781350440838
Zustand	Neuware