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

di Ian Brodie (Autore)

University Press of Mississippi, 2016

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.

• Autore: Ian Brodie
• Editore: University Press of Mississippi
• Collana: Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series
• Anno: 2016
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 270 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• EAN: 9781496807946

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