Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy: Speaking Truth to Power

ISBN-13: 9781032267258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 236 str.

Chilana, Richa

Opis

Punching Up explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I Punching In and Punching Up: Origins, Limits and Possibilities 1 The History of Moroccan Stand-Up Comedy: From Storytelling to Charged Humour; 2 Standing Up for Speaking Up: Stand-Up Comedy in the Indonesian Context; 3 The Jamel Comedy Club: (Mis)understanding Stand-Up Comedy’s Relationship with Urban Culture in France; 4 Stand-Up Comedy as Escape: Caste and Media Infrastructure in Mumbai; 5 Voices from the Comedy Contact Zone: Regarding Performative Strategies Toward Race and the Transnational Body; Part II Gendered Experiences and Stand-Up Comedy 6 Humour as Antihistamine in the Discourse of Persian Stand-Up Comedy: Female Stand-Up Comedians in Iran; 7 Asserting Cultural Citizenship through Situated Comedy: Female Comedians in India; 8 Notes on Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, Adorno’s Kulturindustrie and Feminism; Part III Comics and the Audience: Connections, Ethics and Efficacy? 9 Awkward Connections: Stand-Up Comedy as Affective Arrangement; 10 The Revolution Will Be a Joke: Semiotic Ideologies of Ethics and Efficacy in Stand-Up Comedy; 11 Standing Up for a Cause: The Cathartic and Persuasive Power of Stand-Up Comedy; 12 Which Direction Do We Punch? The Powers and Perils of Humour against the New Conspiracism