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Comedy and Distinction - The Cultural Currency of a 'Good' Sense of Humour (Hardcover, New)
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Comedy and Distinction - The Cultural Currency of a 'Good' Sense of Humour (Hardcover, New)
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This book was shortlisted for the 2015 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial
Prize. Comedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the
British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn,
it has exploded into a booming billion-pound industry both on TV
and on the live circuit. Despite this, academia has either ignored
comedy or focused solely on analysing comedians or comic texts.
This scholarship tends to assume that through analysing an artist's
intentions or techniques, we can somehow understand what is and
what isn't funny. But this poses a fundamental question - funny to
whom? How can we definitively discern how audiences react to
comedy? Comedy and Distinction shifts the focus to provide the
first ever empirical examination of British comedy taste. Drawing
on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews carried out at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the book explores what types of comedy
people like (and dislike), what their preferences reveal about
their sense of humour, how comedy taste lubricates everyday
interaction, and how issues of social class, gender, ethnicity and
geographical location interact with patterns of comic taste.
Friedman asks: Are some types of comedy valued higher than others
in British society? Does more 'legitimate' comedy taste act as a
tangible resource in social life - a form of cultural capital? What
role does humour play in policing class boundaries in contemporary
Britain? This book will be of interest to students and scholars of
sociology, social class, social theory, cultural studies and comedy
studies.
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