Comedy and Critique Stand-Up Comedy and the Professional Ethos of Laughter
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 540
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- ISBN
- 9781529200157
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- As a longer-form output, this monograph uses a combination of content analysis and interviews with stand-up comics to develop an original argument about the relationship between comedy and power. That is, throughout the course of the book Smith advances the claim that the comic sensibility pervading contemporary humour is as much 'speaking truth to power' as it is realising one's position 'in' power. In our opinion, double weighting is therefore justified by depth of investigation and complexity of analysis.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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