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Beryl Reid Says... Good Evening: Performing Queer Identity on British Television [PDF]

, 2014
Beryl Reid Says… Good Evening was a comedy revue series broadcast on BBC television in the late 1960s which showcased the talents of a renowned British character comedy performer. Beryl Reid’s career spanned music hall, variety theatre, dramatic acting,
White, Rosie
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Development of a framework for implementing digital serious games in anatomy education: A single‐centre qualitative study

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Serious games are emerging as innovative tools in medical education, yet their adoption in anatomy teaching remains limited due to educator hesitancy, institutional constraints, and design challenges. This qualitative study explores the perspectives of anatomy educators on digital serious games and proposes a framework for their implementation.
Arthur Chin Haeng Lau, James Pickering
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review. Quirk, Sophie (2015) Why Stand-Up Comedy Matters. How Comedians Manipulate and Influence

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2017
As the title and introduction explain, Sophie Quirk’s monograph sets out to investigate the reasons and ways comedians manipulate and influence their audience.
Margherita Dore
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Muslim Stand-Up Comedy in the US and the UK: Incongruity, Everydayness, and Performativity

Religions, 2021
The objectives of this article are two-fold: to provide a review of the major figures and trends in Muslim American comedy and discuss certain techniques and approaches that have been used by stand-up comedians to counter predominant and discriminatory ...
Lamiae Aidi
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Unmasking Political Branding of Comedian Candidates in Indonesia: A Discourse Network Analysis

Profetik
In Indonesia, the representation of comedians in the legislature remains limited, although the 2024 elections saw a notable increase in comedian candidates. They are, however, still under-represented.
Isni Hindriaty Hindarto, Eriyanto Eriyanto   +1 more
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RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF STAND-UP COMEDY PERFORMANCES BY THREE FAMOUS AMERICAN COMICS

Journal of English Education and Teaching, 2019
This research aimed at finding the rhetorical of narrative section based on Labov’s model and the stand-up comedy techniques which dominantly used by Jim Jefferies, Ricky Gervais, and Bill Burr on their performances. The observation checklist was used in
Fadly Dzil Ikram, Safnil Arsyad, Gita Mutiara Hati   +2 more
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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
wiley   +1 more source

The language of Nigerian stand-up comedy

The European Journal of Humour Research
Nigeria is complexly multilingual. Arising from this, Nigerian stand–up comedians employ a variety of linguistic strategies to communicate with the audience.
Emama Emmanuel Ogheneakpobor, Macaulay Mowarin   +1 more
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Controlling the Field: Memory, Labor, and Ethics in Oral Histories of Brazilian Human Genetics

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article examines how oral histories of twentieth‐century human genetics in Brazil reveal the politics of memory of fieldwork. Through a comparative analysis of interviews with prominent geneticist Francisco M. Salzano and technician Girley V. Simões, who worked with him for most of his career, this study explores the narrative strategies each ...
Rosanna Dent, Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes   +1 more
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