Pub Date : 2023-03-12DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2023.2188043
Houda Belkhiri
Context: this interview was conducted online in the spring of 2022. Post-COvID period allowed me to find interest in the thoughts and ideas of Jon Davison, who shared with me his clowning outlets, escapes during lockdown, his clown community work and travel post-COvID. we even unpacked the situation of clowns in academia and the link between clowning and violence.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2023.2188042
Dhiraj B. Ambade
Abstract This paper examines Dalit stand-up comedy as a creative resistance to caste in India, focusing on the emergence of Dalit stand-up comedy. Through the case study of select Dalit stand-up acts of artists like Manpreet Sarkar, Sanjay Rajoura, and Neha Thombre, this paper analyses how Dalit stand-up comedy as a performing art offers a potent minority perspective on caste, hegemony, and upper-caste elitism. It traces the evolution of Dalit stand-up comedy, pointing out its similarity and differences with the elite mainstream stand-up comedy. The paper foregrounds the radical reimagining of humour wielded as a weapon by Dalit stand-up comedy for sociocultural transformation. It highlights how Dalit marginalisation still exists in India, even in cultural spheres such as stand-up comedy.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2023.2188022
Eduardo Valls Oyarzun
Abstract Most critical readings of Alexander Mackendrick’s black comedy The Ladykillers (1955) focus either on the political satire it displays, its mythical and dream-like undertones or, chiefly, its appropriate place in the canon of Ealing comedies. This article presents a new critical approach to the film. The essay submits that The Ladykillers can be read as a forerunner of neo-Victorian comedy, as it replicates, through strategies of humour, the tensions inherent to the ‘story of difference’ the neo-Victorian ‘project’ attempts to devise. By pitting a set of modern British stock-characters against an impossible embodiment of the Victorian ethos (the character of Mrs. Wilberforce and her house), The Ladykillers both allegorically and metafictionally underlies the contradictions inherent to neo-Victorian comedy. On the one hand, it stages the comic objectification of the Victorian subject, which creates a sense of superiority on behalf of present-day subjectivities; and, on the other, it unfolds its reversal, i.e. the incongruous subduing of the purportedly superior subject to the overpowering Victorian element. The article concludes by assessing the consequences of this reading onto the broader context of cultural identity work.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2023.2187882
T. Adebisi, Henry Nweke-Love, Edidiong Ayeni, V.E.C. Afinotan
Abstract The intrinsic consequences of political actions on society become more obvious in a developing state like Nigeria, where consequences of governmental actions or inactions over the years had become tragedies causing severe emotional, mental, and material distress for its citizens, one of which is insecurity. Nigerians have consequently turned to comedy for relief as the country’s comedy content is largely centered on ridiculing politics and inefficiencies of the government. This study, therefore, attempted to ascertain the utility of comedy using as a politically-induced social problem; insecurity as a paradigm. Three (3) politically-induced contemporary comedy shows on YouTube were analyzed using Sentiment Analysis in Nvivo and a search on ‘insecurity’ and/or ‘security’ was initiated. The analysis showed a predominance of neutral comments (53%) followed by negative sentiments (29%) suggesting that most Nigerians remain unperturbed about their tragedies as Comedy remains a tool for comic relief rather than for social change.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/2040610x.2023.2188044
I. Wilkie
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Pub Date : 2023-03-08DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2023.2187607
Y. Kulinska, Nina Gerasimenko, O. Koval, Alla Zakharchenko
Abstract The urgency of the topic is due to the public need to consider and analyze using the latest methods, new works of modern Ukrainian literature, in particular the military genre - one of the most popular areas of Ukrainian modern literature. The aim of the work is to study and thoroughly analyze works of 2014–2021 dedicated to the war in eastern Ukraine, study their genre nature, identify types of comic, its characteristics and create a new typology of comic discourse in modern Ukrainian literature. Among the main methods in the study of texts are historical-biographical, comparative-historical, comparative, as well as elements of hermeneutic, structural methods, textual and discourse analysis and more. A thorough analysis of humorous, ironic and satirical military works is carried out in the work and a new typology of the comic category is proposed. Research materials can be used to prepare basic and special courses in literary theory, history of Ukrainian and foreign literature, while working on textbooks and manuals, including for higher education institutions and more.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2023.2187747
Rubén de la Prida
Abstract Wes Anderson is, arguably, the greatest heir to the traditional American comic genre in its different manifestations. Starting with the profound influence of the masters of comedy of the silent era, Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin, Andersonian comedy also lines up with the works of masters of classical American Comedy such as Frank Capra, George Cuckor, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder or Preston Sturges, up to the existentialist tone of some of Woody Allen’s comedies. The present contribution analyses, from the perspective of the History of Cinema, the way in which Andersonian comedy draws on this long tradition, crystalizing in the coalescence of up to five comic subtypes: deadpan humour, slapstick, screwball comedy, verbal humour and parody. The latter is of particular significance, since it is the key to the hybridization of cinematic genres that is one of the traits of Anderson’s playful and postmodern approach as a postmodern auteur. Thus, the second part of the article will explore the genre hybridizations through which the Texan filmmaker resignifies the usual meaning of traditional genre conventions, often for the purpose of achieving a very particular comic effect.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2023.2149194
G. Martin
Abstract On May 21st 1986, the BBC broadcast the first episode of Andrew Davies’s black campus comedy A Very Peculiar Practice. 2021 celebrated the series’ 35th anniversary. This article provides an analysis of the contribution of the series to the genre of campus comedy. It provides an evaluation of the major themes, plots and characters introduced throughout the series and how these reflected, and reacted to, the political environment and ideology of the time. The series is discussed in the broader context of the campus novel, the genre of fiction in which staff, students and university management are satirised, and its contribution to the genre of television and film medicine/hospital comedy is also discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2023.2149377
Olly Crick
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