Standing up, speaking out : stand-up comedy and the rhetoric of social change / / edited by Matthew R. Meier and Casey R. Schmitt

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 pages)
• Disciplina: 792.76
• Soggetto topico: Stand-up comedy - United States; Comedy - History and criticism; English language - United States - Rhetoric
• Altri autori: MeierMatthew R SchmittCasey R
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Stand-up and identity -- pt. II. Stand-up, race, and culture -- pt. III. Stand-up and politics -- pt. IV. Standing up, breaking rules.
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little has been paid to the stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing conversation about stand-up comedy from the perspective of the rhetorical tradition. It brings together literatures from rhetorical, cultural, and humor studies to provide a unique exploration of stand-up comedy that both argues on behalf of the form s capacity for social change and attempts to draw attention to a series of otherwise unrecognized rhetors who have made significant contributions to public culture through comedy."
• Titolo autorizzato: Standing up, speaking out
• ISBN: 1-315-65773-2; 1-317-32894-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136136103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II