Working to laugh: assembling difference in american stand-up comedy venues
Auteur :
Thomas, James M.
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9780739189559
Date de publication :
21 janv. 2015
Dimensions :
23,6 x 16,0 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
408 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.