[PDF] Performing Gender And Comedy eBook

Author : Shannon Hengen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 113438565X

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First Published in 1998. This lively volume explores comedy as a place where gender and sexuality, through performance, challenge sexist and heteronormative forces in Western culture. The contributors investigate the effects of gender, sexuality, sexual identity, race, class and nationality on humor and comedic performance. Each chapter, distinct in its voice and content, addresses how particular historical periods seem to affect who laughs at what, why, and with what consequences. This book not only spans a broad range of historical and literary periods, it also engages in a critical conversation with past and present thinkers to articulate the political, cultural and social effects of comedy.

Author : Joanne R. Gilbert
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814328033

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An academic study of stand-up comedy performed by females. This will aid in the understanding of power structures in our society.

Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521760283

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This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.

Author : George Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195370937

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V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories

Author : Gail Finney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134304730

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First Published in 1994. Look Who's Laughing belies the notion that in a joke the only place for a woman is in the butt, Rather than analysing women's humor in isolation, Gail Finney and twenty scholars map the terrain that the genders share and the areas that each hold exclusively. Their essays investigate witty heroines, sexual parodies, domestic humor and romantic power. They focus on comic drama and fiction, stand-up comedy, cartoons, and film describing the roles gender has played in the creation, reception and interpretation of comedy from the sixteenth century to present. They consider works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Zora Neale Hurston and Virginia Woolf, whilst discussing characters such as V.I. Warshawski, Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Bennet. The book's emphasis on comedy's diverse sources uncovers critical prejudices and defines new contexts enabling men and women to understand more about each other's attitudes towards humor, its means and ends.

Author : Yael Kohen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374287236

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Kohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes to piece together an oral history about the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy.

Author : John Alberti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136222898

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This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified theory of gender role change in the movies that combines the insights of both poststructuralist gender and narrative genre theory, avoiding binary approaches to the study of gender representation. He establishes the current "crises" in both gender representation and genre development within romantic comedies as examples of experimentation and change towards narratives that feature more egalitarian and less essentialist constructions of gender.

Author : Delia Chiaro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317804147

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In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and psychology. Since then, both fields have flourished, but largely independently. This book draws together and focuses the work of scholars from diverse disciplines on intersections of gender and humor, giving voice to approaches in disciplines such as film, television, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and popular culture.

Author : Sam Beale
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3030479412

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This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880–1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British comic traditions. Focusing on the under-researched female ‘serio-comic’, the study includes six micro-histories detailing the acts of Ada Lundberg, Bessie Bellwood, Maidie Scott, Vesta Victoria, Marie Lloyd and Nellie Wallace. Uniquely for women in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, these pioneering performers had public voices. The extent to which their comedy challenged Victorian and Edwardian perceptions of women is revealed through explorations of how they connected with popular audiences while also avoiding censorship. Their use of techniques such as comic irony and stereotyping, self-deprecation, and comic innuendo are considered alongside the work of contemporary stand-up comedians and performance artists including Bridget Christie, Bryony Kimmings, Sara Pascoe, Shazia Mirza and Sarah Silverman.

Author : Julia Serano
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1580055052

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A transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communities While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality -- sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Some feminists vocally condemn other feminists because of how they dress, for their sexual partners or practices, or because they are seen as different and therefore less valued. Among LGBTQ activists, there is a long history of lesbians and gay men dismissing bisexuals, transgender people, and other gender and sexual minorities. In each case, exclusion is based on the premise that certain ways of being gendered or sexual are more legitimate, natural, or righteous than others. As a trans woman, bisexual, and femme activist, Julia Serano has spent much of the last ten years challenging various forms of exclusion within feminist and queer/LGBTQ movements. In Excluded, she chronicles many of these instances of exclusion and argues that marginalizing others often stems from a handful of assumptions that are routinely made about gender and sexuality. These false assumptions infect theories, activism, organizations, and communities -- and worse, they enable people to vigorously protest certain forms of sexism while simultaneously ignoring and even perpetuating others. Serano advocates for a new approach to fighting sexism that avoids these pitfalls and offers new ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, and sexism that foster inclusivity.