Humor doesn't retire: Improvisation as a health-promoting intervention for older adults.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2017.10.013
Abstract: As our population ages and aging in place continues to remain a priority of older adults, identifying novel ways to promote the wellbeing of older adults and reduce isolation is of the utmost importance. The… read more here.
Keywords: comedy; improvisation health; retire improvisation; older adults ... See more keywords
Art and Archaeology
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DOI: 10.1017/s0017383522000304
Abstract: This review again reflects the exciting chronological and geographical range within which Classicists operate and the diverse approaches and disciplinary knowledge that illuminate the ancient world for us. Alexa Piqueux's monograph, The Comic Body in… read more here.
Keywords: art archaeology; archaeology; comedy;
The Divine Comedy at Corinth: Paul, Menander and the Rhetoric of Resurrection
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DOI: 10.1017/s0028688518000140
Abstract: This article asks how the New Comedy of Menander might have influenced Paul's theological rhetoric in 1 Cor 5–15. An intertextual reading of Paul's letter against the backdrop of Menander's Samia reveals a number of… read more here.
Keywords: divine comedy; rhetoric; menander; comedy corinth ... See more keywords
Clarence Brown: Hollywood’s Forgotten Master
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DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2019.1643147
Abstract: context of women and comedy, yet productively engaged by White, are Jack Halberstam’s proposals of queer temporality and queer failure. These ‘sexless’ concepts of queerness are convincingly used by White not only to lay out… read more here.
Keywords: clarence brown; brown hollywood; queer; comedy ... See more keywords
Cracking-open vernacular stand-up comedy: Reflections on Celeste Ntuli’s work on sexuality
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DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1775100
Abstract: abstract After 1994, the South African stand-up comedy scene was dominated, shaped and defined by men. Stand-up comedy is now expanding in its various expressions. The insurgence of ‘vernacular’ comedy and visibility of women comedians… read more here.
Keywords: celeste ntuli; article; comedy; stand comedy ... See more keywords
Monstrous Aunties: the Rabelaisian older Asian woman in British cinema and television comedy
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DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2019.1599038
Abstract: ABSTRACT Representations of older women of South Asian heritage in British cinema are often assumed to do little more than reiterate familiar stereotypes. Yet some British comedy films and TV shows have carved out a… read more here.
Keywords: comedy; rabelaisian older; british cinema; monstrous aunties ... See more keywords
Laughing otherwise: comic-critical approaches in alternative comedy
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DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2017.1370490
Abstract: AbstractThe origins of ‘alternative comedy’ are difficult to pinpoint, though it coincided with the rise of Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979 – that year saw the appearance of something called ‘alternative cabaret’, a term… read more here.
Keywords: laughing otherwise; otherwise comic; comedy; critical approaches ... See more keywords
Joke work: comic labor and the aesthetics of the awkward
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DOI: 10.1080/2040610x.2017.1279913
Abstract: ABSTRACT Comedy has long been cast as the linchpin of a space of ludic, non-purposive play. Yet the subgenre ‘cringe comedy’ stakes out a space ruled not by the lighthearted aesthetic of the ‘funny’ but… read more here.
Keywords: figure; joke work; comedy; comic labor ... See more keywords
Not just for laughs: the role of the pilot in commissioning Australian television comedy series
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DOI: 10.1080/2040610x.2017.1279926
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines how the inclusion of a pilot as part of the proposal for a narrative comedy series, which might include the web series as pilot, can increase the chances of the project… read more here.
Keywords: comedy; pilot; series; australian television ... See more keywords
‘[T]his is eating your greens, this is doing your homework’: writing and rehearsing a full-length stand-up show
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DOI: 10.1080/2040610x.2017.1344477
Abstract: ABSTRACT Until recently, the processes which comedians use to create their performances have been seldom examined. This article draws on materials from the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive (BSUCA) and a recent practice-as-research project in which… read more here.
Keywords: stand show; comedy; length stand; full length ... See more keywords
Gender, sexuality and the body in comedy: performance, reiteration, resistance
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DOI: 10.1080/2040610x.2018.1437163
Abstract: Comedy has an important political role in entrenching or overturning existing hierarchies of power, and these are identified through reading strategies that take seriously questions of representation. This was the logic behind the organisation of… read more here.
Keywords: sexuality body; body comedy; gender sexuality; comedy ... See more keywords