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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Politics of British Stand-up Comedy
    sub title: The New Alternative
  name:
    name part: Quirk, Sophie.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 131 p. 3 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This Palgrave Pivot questions how a new generation of alternative stand-up comedians and the political world continue to shape and influence each other. The Alternative Comedy Movement of the late 1970s and 1980s can be described as a time of unruly experimentation and left-wing radicalism. This book examines how alternative comedians continue to celebrate these characteristics in the twenty-first century, while also moving into a distinct phase of artistic development as the political context of the 1970s and 1980s loses its immediacy. Sophie Quirk draws on original interviews with comedians including Tom Allen, Josie Long, John-Luke Roberts and Tony Law to chart how alternative comedians are shaped by, and in turn respond to, contemporary political challenges from neoliberalism to Brexit, class controversy to commercialism. She argues that many of our assumptions about comedy's politics must be challenged and updated. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the working methods and values of today's alternative comedians.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. "Where Are All the Right-Wing Comedians?" -- 3. Political Challenges of the Millennial Era -- 4. Experimentation: Class, Controversy and an Artistic Lifeline -- 5. Conclusion: Widening the Theoretical Basis for Assessing Stand-Up Politics.
  note: by Sophie Quirk.
  subject:
    topic: Comedy
  subject:
    topic: Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: Motion picture acting
  subject:
    topic: Comedy Studies
  subject:
    topic: Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: Screen Performance
  classification: PN1922-1929
  classification: 792.23
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
  identifier: 9783030011055
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01105-5
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    record creation date: 181111
    record change date: 20190722141310.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-01105-5