Ian Brodie

A Vulgar Art (eBook, ePUB)

A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In A Vulgar Art, Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recognize-"literature" or "theatre"; "editorial" or "morality"-and analyze it accordingly. A Vulgar Art begins with a more fundamental observation: someone is standing in front of a group of people, talking to them directly, and trying to make them laugh. So, this book takes the moment of performance as its focus, that stand-up comedy is a collaborative act between the comedian and the audience.

Although the form of talk on the stage resembles talk among friends and intimates in social settings, stand-up comedy remains a profession. As such, it requires performance outside of the comedian's own community to gain larger and larger audiences. How do comedians recreate that atmosphere of intimacy in a roomful of strangers? This book regards everything from microphones to clothing and LPs to Twitter as strategies for bridging the spatial, temporal, and sociocultural distances between the performer and the audience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781626744059
• Artikelnr.: 44376077

Autorenporträt

Ian Brodie is associate professor of folklore at Cape Breton University. He has served as president of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada and is currently editor for Contemporary Legend: The Journal of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.