Format:
IX, 206 pages
,
21 cm
ISBN:
9781529200157
Series Statement:
Bristol shorts research
Content:
"Comedy and critique explores British professional stand-up comedy in the wake of the Alternative Comedy movement of the late twentieth century, seeing it as an extension of the politics of the New Left: standing up for oneself as anti-racist, feminist and open to a queering of self and social institutions. Daniel R. Smith demonstrates that the comic sensibility pervading contemporary humour is as much 'speaking truth to power' as it is realising one's position 'in' power. The professionalisation of New Left humour offers a challenge to social and cultural critique. Stand-up comedy has made us all sociologists of self, identity and cultural power while also resigning us to a place where a comic sensibility becomes an acknowledgment of the necessity of social change"--Back cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781529200171
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781529200164
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781529200188
Additional Edition:
Electronic version Smith, Daniel R Comedy and critique Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781529200164
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Comedy
