Taking a Stand : Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kunze, Peter C. (Peter Christopher) (Editor ), Champion, Jared N. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Stand-up comedy.
Intellectual life.
Stand-up comedy > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
United States > Intellectual life > 21st century.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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 Perez
  • 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.

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