A Discourse Upon Comedy
Title | A Discourse Upon Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | George Farquhar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Strauss, Louis A., 1872- |
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A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar
Title | A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar PDF eBook |
Author | Caty Borum Chattoo |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2020-03-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520299760 |
Comedy is a powerful contemporary source of influence and information. In the still-evolving digital era, the opportunity to consume and share comedy has never been as available. And yet, despite its vast cultural imprint, comedy is a little-understood vehicle for serious public engagement in urgent social justice issues – even though humor offers frames of hope and optimism that can encourage participation in social problems. Moreover, in the midst of a merger of entertainment and news in the contemporary information ecology, and a decline in perceptions of trust in government and traditional media institutions, comedy may be a unique force for change in pressing social justice challenges. Comedians who say something serious about the world while they make us laugh are capable of mobilizing the masses, focusing a critical lens on injustices, and injecting hope and optimism into seemingly hopeless problems. By combining communication and social justice frameworks with contemporary comedy examples, authors Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman show us how comedy can help to serve as a vehicle of change. Through rich case studies, audience research, and interviews with comedians and social justice leaders and strategists, A Comedian and an Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice explains how comedy – both in the entertainment marketplace and as cultural strategy – can engage audiences with issues such as global poverty, climate change, immigration, and sexual assault, and how activists work with comedy to reach and empower publics in the networked, participatory digital media age.
Funny: The Book
Title | Funny: The Book PDF eBook |
Author | David Misch |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2012-04-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1557839662 |
Funny: The Book is an entertaining look at the art of comedy, from its historical roots to the latest scientific findings, with diversions into the worlds of movies (Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers), television (The Office), prose (Woody Allen, Robert Benchley), theater (The Front Page), jokes and stand-up comedy (Richard Pryor, Steve Martin), as well as personal reminiscences from the author's experiences on such TV programs as Mork and Mindy. With allusions to the not-always-funny Carl Jung, George Orwell, and Arthur Koestler, Funny: The Book explores the evolution, theories, principles, and practice of comedy, as well as the psychological, philosophical, and even theological underpinnings of humor, coming to the conclusion that (Spoiler Alert!) Comedy is God.
The Boastful Chef
Title | The Boastful Chef PDF eBook |
Author | John Wilkins |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 9780199240685 |
This book explains the importance of food to ancient Greek comedy: it was a medium through which comedy could represent the material, social, agricultural, political and religious worlds to the Greek city-state. The text also contains translations of hundreds of comic fragments; and it reassesses the division of comedy into Sicilian and Attic Old, Middle, and New.
Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
Title | Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres PDF eBook |
Author | Emmanuela Bakola |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2013-04-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1107033314 |
Explores comedy's voracious and multifarious dialogue with a large spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions surrounding and shaping it.
Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy
Title | Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Dorota M. Dutsch |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2008-08-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199533385 |
Dorota M. Dutsch examines the linguistic features of the lines that the Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence attribute to their female characters, and asks whether their construction of a feminine idiom should be considered as evidence of how Roman women actually spoke.
A dissertation upon the Greek comedy, translated from Brumoy. General conclusion to Brumoy's Greek theatre. Miscellaneous observations on the tragedy of Macbeth. Adventurer. History of Rasselas
Title | A dissertation upon the Greek comedy, translated from Brumoy. General conclusion to Brumoy's Greek theatre. Miscellaneous observations on the tragedy of Macbeth. Adventurer. History of Rasselas PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 1796 |
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