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Meaning and Meaninglessness: The Global Standup Explosion = Sens et non-sens : l'explosion mondiale du stand-up [electronic resource]
Meaning and Meaninglessness: The Global Standup Explosion = Sens et non-sens : l'explosion mondiale du stand-up [electronic resource]
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214100321
- ISBN
- 9798379781545
- DDC
- 301
- 서명/저자
- Meaning and Meaninglessness: The Global Standup Explosion = Sens et non-sens : lexplosion mondiale du stand-up [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : Yale University., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(240 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Alexander, Jeffrey C.;Smith, Philip.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation investigates the social and cultural significance of the global standup explosion. An unignorable social fact - viewers of more than ten standup specials jumped 60% just between 2018-19, at least half of Netflix users have watched at least one, comedy clubs are their own pandemic - the live comedy phenomenon offers a novel chance to analyze large-scale cultural attitudes and trends. The analysis explores distinct aspects (scales) of humor in three chapters. Chapter One statistically analyzes specific jokes and their reception, surveying whether they are found funny and offensive by respondents. The study reveals that individual reactions to jokes can reveal salient distinctions between demographic groups, highlighting deep symbolic boundaries. Chapter Two examines the content creators and their inextricable audience, identifying what defines a comic. Defending the comic as a kind of Everyman proxy, the research demonstrates that various factors, including age, gender, and ethnic categories, can operate in the same way as Du Bois' theory of double consciousness. Proposed: a revision of Du Boisian thinking, and a reckoning with the multiplicity of modern identity. Chapter Three focuses on the maintenance of the (now sacred) norm of "authenticity" in standup comedy, identifying how comedians reference themselves, their profession, and their past jokes to maintain authenticity. The study reveals that performers are increasingly "going meta" to guard against the moral accusation of inauthenticity. A theoretical introduction, Chapter Zero, presents a case study of the 2020 Blackout Tuesday movement to develop a theory of "ambivalent action," which involves deliberate intention to communicate two messages at once. Arguing that humor is an archetypal ambivalent action, the dissertation concludes that standup occupies the unique intersection between authenticity, a norm that begs fulfilling, and ambivalence, a means to fulfill it. As a final implication: if ambivalence can reconcile incongruities at much at the level of a pun as at the level of an identity crisis, standup comedy has the potential to address the most irreducible dissonances in modern culture structures. Can something be both meaningful and meaningless? And: is there meaning in meaninglessness?
- 일반주제명
- Sociology.
- 일반주제명
- Theater.
- 일반주제명
- American studies.
- 키워드
- Ambivalence
- 키워드
- Authenticity
- 키워드
- Humor
- 키워드
- Meaning
- 키워드
- Standup comedy
- 기타저자
- Yale University Sociology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-01A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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