Sam Friedman

Comedy and Distinction

The Cultural Currency of a 'Good' Sense of Humour

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Produktbeschreibung

Comedy and Distinction provides the first ever empirical examination of British comedy taste. Drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews carried out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this book explores what types of comedy people like (and dislike), what their preferences reveal about their sense of humour, how comedy taste lubricates everyday interaction, and how issues of social class, gender, ethnicity and geographical location interact with patterns of comic taste.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415855037
• ISBN-10: 0415855039
• Artikelnr.: 39595077

Autorenporträt

Sam Friedman, is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has published widely on comedy, social mobility and social class. He is also the publisher of Fest magazine, the largest magazine covering the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Funny to Whom? Part I: Positioning the Research 2. From
Music Hall to the Alternative Boom: The Changing Field of British Comedy 3.
Cultural Capital: From Resources to Realisation Part II: The Cultural
Currency of a 'Good' Sense of Humour 4. Liking the 'Right' Comedy 5.
Working for your Laughter: Comedy Styles and Embodied Cultural Capital 6.
Cultural Omnivores or Culturally Homeless? Exploring the Comedy Tastes of
the Socially Mobile Part III: Comic Cultural Capital: Strength and
Legitimacy 7. Comedy Snobs and Symbolic Boundaries 8. The Tastemakers:
Comedy Critics and the Legitimation of Cultural Capital 9. The Hidden
Tastemakers: Comedy Scouts as Cultural Brokers 10. Conclusion