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Performing Arabness in Arab American Stand-up Comedy
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2014 This article deals with the dramatic art of stand-up comedy. It locates Arab American stand-up comedy within a broader American humorous tradition and investigates the way Arab American performers use this art to negotiate and (re)construct their ...
Fouad Selim Yasser
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"Beyond laughter": a systematic review to understand how interventions utilise comedy for individuals experiencing mental health problems. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Kafle E +5 more
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Social image and identity in stand-up comedy [PDF]
, 2017 El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la importancia del trabajo de la imagen en un género como es el monólogo cómico o stand-up comedy. Como acto dialógico interactivo con el público que asiste a este tipo de espectáculo, los sujetos que ...
Rodríguez Santos, José María
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
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Organic Representation as a Critical Media Approach to Leadership Studies in Popular Culture
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 75-80, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT This article applies the critical media concept of organic representation to leadership studies as an analytic of how various creators in popular culture today are not just writing inclusive storytelling but, more notably, modeling new modes of production and self‐presentation that are actively challenging hegemonic industry practices and ...
Raffi Sarkissian
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Stand-up documentary: An emerging narrative device in Yvonne Orji’s comedy
Tydskrif vir LetterkundeStand-up documentary—the inclusion of video film footage in stand-up performances—is a growing trend in comedy specials. Gary Gulman in The Great Depresh and Whitmer Thomas in The Golden One are some of the earliest comedians to employ documentary clips
Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula
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Translating stand-up comedy: Eddie Izzard's Dress to Circle [PDF]
, 2009 This research analyses the decisions made in the translation and performance, by Anglophone comedian Eddie Izzard, of a comedy show performed first in two parts in English, in Dress to Kill and Circle, and then translated by the performer and performed
Whitworth, Kirsten
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New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 107-113, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT Popular culture exists as an expression of cultural history. It speaks to who we are, what we aspire toward, and where our generation stands in relation to the major issues of the day. This article is a conversation about the myriad perspectives offered in this issue of New Directions for Student Leadership, exploring the contributions each ...
Kathleen Callahan, Sean Connable
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Saying what cannot be said: The grace and the disgrace of a difficult joke [PDF]
, 2018 This article deals with the figure of the jester as the one who is allowed to say «what cannot be said». I rely on a current example: the controversy raised by a Comedy Central video in which comedian Rober Bodegas performed a stand-up routine centered ...
Martínez-Alés García, Daniel Eduardo
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Of Coase and Comics, or, The Comedy of Copyright [PDF]
, 2009 This Essay responds to There’s No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy, by Dotan Oliar and Christopher Sprigman.
Madison, Michael J
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