Taking a stand : contemporary US stand-up comedians as public intellectuals /
"Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues: Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory took time away from the stage to speak alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and-more recently-Tig N...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Laughing out loud : stand-up comedians in the public sphere / Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze
- Mo'nique : con woman and sister citizen in I coulda been your cellmate / Linda Mizejewski
- Scorched earth stand-up : laughing off wounded warriors with the humor of Bobby Henline / Christopher J. Gilbert
- Maria Bamford : a/way with words / Rebecca Krefting
- Awkward embrace : Tig Notaro and the humor of social discomfort / Kathryn Kein
- Comedy from the intersections : Chris Rock on class and race / Philip Scepanski
- White comedians, strategic racist humor, and the (re)normalization of racism : Lisa Lampanelli as a case study / Raúl Pérez
- Leguizamo's comic frame : identity and the art of impersonation / Miriam M. Chirico
- "Of course, but maybe" : Louis C.K. and the contradictory politics of privilege / David Gillota
- Jerry Seinfeld versus PC social media : professional dissonanace and the public intellectual as gatekeeper / Timothy J. Viator
- Standing flat-footed and talking : W. Kamau Bell talks race in an age of "post-race" / Monique Taylor
- Smartphone sociology : Aziz Ansari on intimacy in the twenty-first century / Ila Tyagi
- Stewart Huff, P.I. : intellectual at large / Susan Seizer and Aviva Orenstein
- Larry the Cable Guy : the anti-political correctness public intellectual / David R. Dewberry
- "Killer closer" : Doug Stanhope and the white liberatarian stand-up tradition / Thomas Clark
- The comedian as preacher : Bill Hicks and the rhetoric of fundamentalism / Rob King.