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  • Comedy and Controversy

    Scripting Public Speech

    de Sarah Balkin, Marc Mierowsky ...
    Series series Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts
    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 ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Spectral Characters

    Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage

    de Sarah Balkin ...
    Theater’s materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonomy and depersonalization. Spectral Characters argues that modern dramatists in fact emphasized the extent to which humans are fictional, made and changed by costumes, settings, props, and spoken dialogue. Examining work by Ibsen, Wilde, Strindberg, Genet, Kopit, and ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Madness of Crowds

    Gender, Race and Identity

    de Mr Douglas Murray ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERUpdated with a new afterword"An excellent take on the lunacy affecting much of the world today. Douglas is one of the bright lights that could lead us out of the darkness." – Joe Rogan"Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues" – Jordan B. PetersonAre we living through the great derangement... ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Comedy Book

    How Comedy Conquered Culture—and the Magic That Makes It Work

    de Jesse David Fox ...
    One of NPR’s Best Books of 2023. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture, Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions, and Lit Hub.“*Comedy Book*changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before.” —Seth Meyers“Energetic and wise . . . Comedy Book <... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Planet Funny

    How Comedy Took Over Our Culture

    de Ken Jennings ...
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearThe witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author and record-setting Jeopardy! championKen Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings,” (Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go Bernadette)—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes.Where once society’s most . ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Secret Public

    How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream

    de Jon Savage ...
    **Rolling Stone [UK] — Best Music Books of the YearA monumental history of the gay influence on popular culture, from the rise of Little Richard to the collapse of disco in 1979: award-winning author Jon Savage takes us on a fast and captivating journey through the history of pop music as seen through the eyes of queer artists.**Jon Savage, the author of the canonical England’s Dreaming, explodes ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Importance of Being Funny

    Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives

    de Al Gini ...
    When E. B. White said “analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies,” he hadn’t seen Al Gini’s hilarious, incisive, and informative take on jokes, joke-telling, and the jokers who tell jokes. For Gini, humor is more than just foolish fun: it serves as a safety valve for dealing with reality that gives us the courage to endure that which we cannot ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Telling True Stories

    Navigating the challenges of writing narrative non-fiction

    de Matthew Ricketson ...
    'In this excellent and provocative book, Matthew Ricketson lays bare the challenges of modern storytelling. I have found myself thinking about it every day, long after I put it down.' - William Powers, author of Hamlet's BlackBerry'An essential guide for the true storyteller.' - Chloe Hooper, award-winning author of fiction and non-fictionIt's etched into our neurological pathways; we can't live ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Saturday Night Live & American TV

    de Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz, Ron Becker ...
    Thought-provoking and "undeniably interesting" essays on this cultural institution of comedy and what it says about our society ( Booklist).Since 1975, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" has greeted late night–TV viewers looking for the best in sketch comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the careers of countless comedians, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Vantage Points

    On Media as Trans Memoir

    de Chase Joynt ...
    A provocative book by an acclaimed writer-filmmaker that combines memoir and media as seen through a trans lensFollowing the death of the family patriarch, a box of newly procured family documents reveals writer-filmmaker Chase Joynt's previously unknown connection to Canadian media maverick Marshall McLuhan. Vantage Points takes up the surprising appearance of McLuhan in Joynt's family archive as ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • It's Not TV

    Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

    Edición de Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, Cara Louise Buckley ...
    Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • That's Not Funny

    How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them

    de Matt Sienkiewicz ...
    A 2022 Best Comedy Book, VultureA rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor."Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand op-eds, and more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro