2,373 research outputs found
Is Brexit funny? The cultural significance of comedy about Brexit
No full textSince mid-2016 there has been a vast amount of jokes, comedy and satire about the EU referendum and Brexit. Is Brexit funny? Is it controversial for comedians to joke about Brexit? Where are all the pro-Brexit comedians? In this blog, Simon Weaver and Sharon Lockyer look at the cultural significance of comedy about Brexit
Dynamics of social class contempt in contemporary British television comedy
No full textThis is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2010 Taylor & Francis.British television comedy has often ridiculed the complexities and characteristics of social class structures and identities. In recent years, poor white socially marginalised groups, now popularly referred to as “chavs”, have become a prevalent comedy target. One of the most popular and controversial television “comedy chavs” is Little Britain's fictional teenage single mother, Vicky Pollard. This article examines the representation of Vicky Pollard in light of contemporary widespread abuse of the white working class. Highlighting the polysemic and ambivalent nature of Vicky Pollard's representation, the article argues that whilst Little Britain's characterisation of Vicky Pollard largely contributes to contemporary widespread demonisation of the working class, there are moments within Little Britain when a more sympathetic tone towards the poor working class may be read, and where chav identities are used to ridicule the pretensions, superficiality, and falsity of middle-class identities. The article concludes that television comedy has been, and continues to be, a significant vehicle through which serious concerns, anxieties, and questions about social class and class identities are discursively constructed and contested
From the IBPP Research Associates. Venezuela: Sharon Reimel de Carrasquel
No full textThe author, Sharon Reimel de Carrasquel, discusses the recently held presidential election in Venezuela
Dr. Sharon Feldman – Faculty Author Interview
No full textSharon Feldman, Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies discusses her new book, In the Eye of the Storm: Contemporary Theater in Barcelona. Barcelona is presently experiencing the most dynamic period in its modern theater history. This book describes some of the crucial moments and back stories, as well as some of the theatre companies and playwrights, that have shaped the theatrical life of the city of Barcelona in the aftermath of the Franco dictatorship
Letter from Sharon M. Tanihara, September 1990
No full textCorrespondence from Sharon Tanihara to Senator Daniel Inouye, Representative Norman Mineta, and Representative Robert Matsui regarding Tanihara's advocacy for amendments to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and her opinions on restitution payments for individuals previously excluded from that bill.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives
No full textAlternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy. The collection examines the contexts, performances and reception of alternative comedy in order to provide a holistic approach to examining the socio-political impact and significance of alternative comedy from its historical roots through to present day performances. As alternative comedy celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2019, critically reflecting on its impact and significance is a timely endeavour. The book adopts a distinctive interdisciplinary approach, synthesizing theory, concepts and methodologies from comedy studies, theatre and performance, communication and media studies, sociology, political sciences and anthropology. This approach is taken in order to fully understand and examine the dynamics and nuances of the alternative comedy movement which would not be possible with a single-discipline approach
Peter Jaeger, The Shadow Line
No full textPeter Jaeger’s The Shadow Line literally and figuratively shadows Joseph Conrad’s 1917 novella The Shadow Line by reading the original and re-writing its non-identical twin.
Peter Jaeger has produced poetry, criticism, hybrid creative-critical research, and artists’ books. His most recent publications are John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics and A Field Guide to Lost Things. He is Professor of Poetics at Roehampton University.
Robert Hampson is Chair of the UK Joseph Conrad Society, the author of three monographs on Conrad, including Conrad’s Secrets, and the editor of a number of Conrad’s works. He has written several books of poetry and is Director of the MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway.
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was established by artist and writer Sharon Kivland in 2013. The publications are modestly yet attractively produced, usually printed in small editions, and include the seriesThe Good Reader, to which Kivland invites others to reflect on reading (forthcoming are works by Vanessa Place, Kate Briggs, Sarah Wood, and Annabel Frearson). Afterword by Robert Hampso
Sharon Patricia Holland, 41st Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textSharon Patricia Holland is a scholar and associate professor of English, African and African American studies, and women’s studies at Duke University. She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism, Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity, and a co-editor of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Sharon Bridgforth, 29th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textSharon Bridgforth is the Lambda Award winning author of the bull-jean and the Lambda nominated performance/novel, loveconjure/blues (both from RedBone Press). Bridgforth has been anthologized and produced widely and has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts Commissioning Program; The National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Playwright in Residence Program; National Performance Network; Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund Award; and Funding Exchange/The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media. Bridgforth is the Anchor Artist for The Austin Project, sponsored by The Center for African and African American Studies (U.T. Austin) where she teaches a course on Black Empowerment and Community Internship
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