A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy - Rilegato

Brodie, Ian

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ISBN 10: 1628461829 ISBN 13: 9781628461824

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2014

Riassunto

In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recognize--"literature" or "theatre"; "editorial" or "morality"--and analyze it accordingly. A Vulgar Art begins with a more fundamental observation: someone is standing in front of a group of people, talking to them directly, and trying to make them laugh. So this book takes the moment of performance as its focus, that stand-up comedy is a collaborative act between the comedian and the audience.

Although the form of talk on the stage resembles talk among friends and intimates in social settings, stand-up comedy remains a profession. As such, it requires performance outside of the comedian's own community to gain larger and larger audiences. How do comedians recreate that atmosphere of intimacy in a roomful of strangers? This book regards everything from microphones to clothing and LPs to Twitter as strategies for bridging the spatial, temporal, and socio-cultural distances between the performer and the audience.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1628461829
• ISBN 13: 9781628461824
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 255