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Taboo Comedy

Author : Chiara Bucaria
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137593385
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Taboo Comedy written by Chiara Bucaria and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and reality shows, and advertising) both on cable and network television. Whilst the focus is predominantly on the US and UK, the contributors also address more general and global issues and different contexts of reception, in an attempt to look at this kind of comedy from different perspectives. Over the last few decades, taboo comedy has become a staple of television programming, thus raising issues concerning its functions and appropriateness, and making it an extremely relevant subject for those interested in how both humour and television work.

Taboo

Author : Shirley R. Steinberg
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433108402
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Taboo written by Shirley R. Steinberg and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taboo: Essays on Culture and Education is a collection of 15 compelling and controversial articles from the pages of Taboo: The Journal of Cultural Studies and Education. Scholars including Henry A. Giroux, Deborah P. Britzman, and Lawrence Grossberg explore intersections of race, gender, sexuality, social class, and power by examining cultural icons such as Forrest Gump and Borat, and social phenomena including cheerleading and the depiction of Jewish mothers on television. Taboo: Essays on Culture and Education is an indispensable resource for cultural studies scholars and students alike.

American Taboo

Author : Lauren Rosewarne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book American Taboo written by Lauren Rosewarne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies. Flatulence ... male nudity ... abortion ... masturbation: these are just a few of the taboo topics in the United States. What do culturally enforced silences about certain subjects say about our societyand our latent fears? This work provides a broad yet detailed overview of popular culture's most avoided topics to explain why they remain off-limits and examines how they are presented in contemporary mediaor, in many cases, delicately explored using euphemism and innuendo. The author offers fascinating, in-depth analysis of the meaning behind these portrayals of a variety of both mundane and provocative taboos, and identifies how new television programs, films, and advertising campaigns intentionally violate longstanding cultural taboos to gain an edge in the marketplace.

Streaming Video

Author : Amanda D. Lotz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479816833
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Streaming Video written by Amanda D. Lotz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling. The rise of streaming has dramatically transformed how audiences consume media. Over the last decade, subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services, including Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+, have begun commissioning and financing their own original movies and TV shows, changing the way and the rate at which content is produced across the globe, from Mexico City to Mumbai. Streaming Video maps this international production boom and what it means for producers, audiences, and storytellers. Through eighteen richly textured case studies, ranging from original Korean dramas on Netflix to BluTV’s experimental Turkish series, the book investigates how streaming services both disrupt and maintain storytelling traditions in specific national contexts. To what extent, and how, are streamers expanding norms of television and film storytelling in different parts of the world? Are streamers enabling the creation of content that would not otherwise exist? What are the implications for different viewers, in different countries, with different tastes? Together, the chapters critically assess the impacts of streaming on twenty-first century audiovisual storytelling and rethink established understandings of transnational screen flows.

The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198808194
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language written by Keith Allan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. It examines topics such as impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy.

Ebony

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Taboo in Advertising

Author : Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027254230
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Taboo in Advertising written by Elsa Simões Lucas Freitas and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taboos are much more than just a synonym of 'forbidden'. Proof of the concept's complexity can be found in the way ads often try to hide the taboo inherent to their products or, conversely, in the way certain taboo readings are foregrounded on purpose in other ads. This volume shows why and how that happens, using print and television ads to exemplify (a) the elaborate strategies used by ads for certain products to cleverly hide the taboo inherent to them, and (b) the deliberate recourse to taboo references in ads for products that do not present any taboo connotation. The linguistic analysis undertaken takes into account the different modes (verbal language, music, sound effects, moving and static images) that convey meaning in ads. Taboo is very often conveyed or disguised through one of the channels while the others play the opposite role, thus achieving a balance that prevents the ad from being too obscure to be understood or too daring for the general public to accept it. For this comprehensive approach, concepts are drawn from different disciplines: textual and semiotic analysis from linguistics, theories of taboo from anthropology, and background to advertising from media studies.

Understanding Animation

Author : Paul Wells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136158804
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Animation written by Paul Wells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Understanding Animation is a comprehensive introduction to animated film, from cartoons to computer animation. Paul Wells' insightful account of a critically neglected but increasingly popular medium: * explains the defining characteristics of animation as a cinematic form * outlines different models and methods which can be used to interpret and evaluate animated films * traces the development of animated film around the world, from Betty Boop to Wallace and Gromit. Part history, part theory, and part celebration, Understanding Animation includes: * notes towards a theory of animation * an explanation of animation's narrative strategies * an analyis of how comic events are constructed * a discussion of representation, focusing on gender and race * primary research on animation and audiences. Paul Wells' argument is illustrated with case studies, including Daffy Duck in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck, Jan Svankmajer's Jabberwocky, Tex Avery's Little Rural Riding Hood and King Size Canary ', and Nick Park's Creature Comforts. Understanding Animation demonstrates that the animated film has much to tell us about ourselves, the cultures we live in, and our view of art and society.

Liquid Metal

Author : Sean Redmond
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364871
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Liquid Metal written by Sean Redmond and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader brings together a great number of what are regarded to be the 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. It includes key essays by writers such as J.P. Telotte, Susan Sontag and Peter Biskind.

Seinfeld and the Comic Vision

Author : Whitley Kaufman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498594751
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Seinfeld and the Comic Vision written by Whitley Kaufman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seinfeld and the Comic Vision analyzes the television situation comedy Seinfeld to form a theory of comedy—the comic vision—arguing thatcomedy should not be seen merely as entertainment, but deserves to be taken seriously as expressing a philosophical worldview. Whitley Kaufman demonstrates how in Seinfeld, and in comedy on a larger scale, characters are given license to violate social norms and to fail to live up to societal ideals in a way that shows they remain fundamentally decent people. Kaufman examines how comedy can be seen as a celebration of the “lower” aspects of human nature—our more animal or bodily side—but argues that the comic vision is not cynical or pessimistic, but rather fundamentally affirmative of human nature and of life, despite the many human limitations. Scholars of television studies, media studies, pop culture, and philosophy will find this book particularly useful.

New Postcolonial British Genres

Author : Sarah Ilott
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137505222
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book New Postcolonial British Genres written by Sarah Ilott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses four new genres of literature and film that have evolved to accommodate and negotiate the changing face of postcolonial Britain since 1990: British Muslim Bildungsromane, gothic tales of postcolonial England, the subcultural urban novel and multicultural British comedy.

Anatomy of the Superhero Film

Author : Larrie Dudenhoeffer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319579223
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of the Superhero Film written by Larrie Dudenhoeffer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses what a superhero body can do by developing several “x-rays” of the superbody’s sensoria, anatomic structures, internal systems, cellular organizations, and orthotic, chemical, or technological enhancements. In short, these x-rays offer what we might describe as a metamorpho-physiological approach to the superheroes in feature films, theatrical cartoon shorts, and Netflix television series. This approach examines the ways in which the “substance” of superheroes, which includes their masks, costumes, chevrons, weapons, and auras, extends into the diegetic environment of the film, transgressing it, transforming it, and corporealizing it, making it emblematic of the shape, dimensions, contours, and organismic workings of one or more of our major organs, members, orifices, fluids, or cell clusters. Thus the superhero film, as this study claims, works to make us more aware of the mutability, adaptability, modifiability, and virtual capabilities of our own flesh.

Funny How?

Author : Alex Clayton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438478305
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Funny How? written by Alex Clayton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes something funny? This book shows how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayton argues that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its typical rejection of narrative development make it comedy-concentrate, providing a rich field for exploring how humor works. Focusing on a dozen or so skits and scenes, Clayton shows precisely how sketch comedy appeals to the funny bone and engages our philosophical imagination. He suggests that since humor is about persuading an audience to laugh, it can be understood as a form of rhetoric. Through vivid, highly readable analyses of individual sketches, Clayton illustrates that Aristotle's three forms of appeal—logos, the appeal to reason; ethos, the appeal to communality; and pathos, the appeal to emotion—can form the basis for illuminating the inner workings of humor. Drawing on both popular and lesser-known examples from the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere—Monty Python's Flying Circus, Key and Peele, Saturday Night Live, Airplane!, and Smack the Pony—Clayton reveals the techniques and resonances of humor.

Health and Inequality in Standup Comedy

Author : Sean M. Viña
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666940836
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Health and Inequality in Standup Comedy written by Sean M. Viña and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Health and Inequality in Standup Comedy: Stories That Challenge Stigma, Sean M. Viña explores the power of open conversations in reducing stigma. Using standup comedy as a lens, the book delves into the experiences of ninety-nine diverse comedians, revealing how they disclose their stigmas in public and what prevents some from having open conversations. The author argues that the scope of stigma resistance is defined by the prejudice of those who stigmatize, making it an unequal endeavor that requires structural change to truly make a difference. Through the voices of these comedians, Health and Inequality in Standup Comedy challenges us to reconceptualize our approach to fighting stigma and discrimination and highlights the importance of implementing policies that decrease segregation. A compelling and eye-opening read for anyone interested in understanding the power of social contact through the unequal, standup comedy world.

The Language of Greek Comedy

Author : Andreas Willi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191529699
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Greek Comedy written by Andreas Willi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterization in Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy, and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay. While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and textual criticism) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.

Tragedy Plus Time

Author : Philip Scepanski
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147732254X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy Plus Time written by Philip Scepanski and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the most solemn moments in recent American history, comedians have tested the limits of how soon is “too soon” to joke about tragedy. Comics confront the horrifying events and shocking moments that capture national attention and probe the acceptable, or “sayable,” boundaries of expression that shape our cultural memory. In Tragedy Plus Time, Philip Scepanski examines the role of humor, particularly televised comedy, in constructing and policing group identity and memory in the wake of large-scale events. Tragedy Plus Time is the first comprehensive work to investigate tragedy-driven comedy in the aftermaths of such traumas as the JFK assassination and 9/11, as well as during the administration of Donald Trump. Focusing on the mass publicization of television comedy, Scepanski considers issues of censorship and memory construction in the ways comedians negotiate emotions, politics, war, race, and Islamophobia. Amid the media frenzy and conflicting expressions of grief following a public tragedy, comedians provoke or risk controversy to grapple publicly with national traumas that all Americans are trying to understand for themselves.

Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation

Author : Loukia Kostopoulou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003826733
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation written by Loukia Kostopoulou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection spotlights the role of media crossovers in humour translation and how the latter is conveyed through new means of communication. The volume offers an in-depth exploration of the entanglements of film, theatre, literature, TV, the Internet, etc., within the framework of transmediality and their influence on the practice of translating humour. Chapters focus on the complex web of interrelationships shaped by and shaping the process(es) of transformation and adaptation that take place across media and across languages and cultures. Situating translation practices and innovations within an interdisciplinary context, the volume underscores the hybrid nature and complex semiotics of humour and the plurality of possibilities for new insights that contemporary approaches offer driven by technological advancements in the industry. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of Translation Studies, Humour Studies, Audiovisual Translation, Media Studies, and Adaptation Studies.