Comedy and Controversy : Scripting Public Speech
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts
ISBN-10
1009396803
ISBN-13
9781009396806
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 30th, 2025
Print length
68 Pages
Weight
118 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.10 x 0.70 cms
Product Classification:
Theatre studies
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This Element discusses general features of controlled experimentation, epistemic and practical aspects, and historical perspectives. It argues that controlled experimentation has a material-technical and a conceptual side. It shifts the focus from control experiments to controlling for the epistemologically fundamental issue in experimentation.
This is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when the distinction between the two breaks down, when stand-up enters or is pushed into the public sphere and is interpreted according to the scripts that govern popular political and media rhetoric rather than the traditional generic conventions of comic performance. These controversies raise a larger set of questions about the comedian''s public role. They draw attention to the intention of jokes and their effects in the world. And they force us to consider how the limits of comic performance what can be said, by whom, and why respond to, and can reshape, public discourse across changing media contexts.
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