Standing Up, Speaking Out (eBook)

Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change

Matthew R. Meier, Casey R. Schmitt (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
284 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-317-32893-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from political leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little attention has been paid to stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing conversation about stand-up comedy from the perspective of the rhetorical tradition. It brings together literatures from rhetorical, cultural, and humor studies to provide a unique exploration of stand-up comedy that both argues on behalf of the form's capacity for social change and attempts to draw attention to a series of otherwise unrecognized rhetors who have made significant contributions to public culture through comedy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 1-317-32893-0 / 1317328930
• ISBN-13: 978-1-317-32893-3 / 9781317328933