Comedy and Controversy : Scripting Public Speech

Name: Comedy and Controversy
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009565356
Price: 10050 KES
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9781009565356

by Marc Mierowsky , Sarah Balkin

Book Details

Format Hardback

Book Series Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts

ISBN-10 1009565354

ISBN-13 9781009565356

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 266 grams

Product Classification: Theatre studies Theatre studies

KSh 10,050.00

Currently unavailable 0 in stock

Delivery Location

County

Location

Delivery fee: Select location

Secure

Quality

Fast

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.

Get Comedy and Controversy by Marc Mierowsky, Sarah Balkin at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Cambridge University Press and it has 68 pages.