James M. Thomas

Working to Laugh

Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through intensive fieldwork lasting over eighteen months, this book demonstrates that the stand-up comedy venue is a dynamic space where social actors contest and reproduce dominant understandings of race, class, and gender in ways that transcend the joke-work performed on stage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780739189559
• ISBN-10: 0739189557
• Artikelnr.: 41751285

Autorenporträt

James M. Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. His research has been featured in international, peer-reviewed journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, and Ethnography. His first monograph is entitled Working to Laugh: Assembling Race and Heteronormativity in an American Stand-Up Comedy Club (Lexington, 2014)

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Into
the Field: The Comedy Kitchen and Helter Skelter Chapter 3: Affective Labor
and The Comedy Kitchen Chapter 4: Affective Labor and Helter Skelter
Chapter 5: Assembling Order in Stand-Up Comedy Chapter 6: Stand-Up Comedy,
Urban Nightlife, and Affective-Cultural Assemblages Chapter 7: Coda -
Soleil Chapter 8: Conclusion Appendix A: Methodology Bibliography