Comedy and Controversy DOI Open Access
Sarah Balkin, Marc Mierowsky

Published: Dec. 18, 2024

This is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when distinction between two breaks down, enters – or pushed into sphere interpreted according to scripts that govern popular political media rhetoric rather than traditional generic conventions of comic performance. These raise a larger set questions comedian's role. They draw attention intention jokes their effects in world. And they force us consider how limits performance what can be said, by whom, why respond to, reshape, discourse across changing contexts.

Language: Английский

English Play Development under Neoliberalism, 2000–2022 DOI Creative Commons
Lucy Tyler

Published: March 18, 2025

English Play Development under Neoliberalism, 2000–2022 is the first study of institutionalising play development practices in twenty-first century. It identifies ways which support for playwrights and text increased beneficially during 1990s 2000s. assesses bureaucratic institutional dynamics key producing houses as they were surveyed by two reports 2009, how these experienced transformed 2010s. The Element new innovations commodification marketisation writing, bureaucratisation literary management, structuring restructuring dramaturgy according to Fordist, then post-Fordist, conditions, necessity commissioned artists operate neoliberal subjects. concludes with attention a liberatory horizon context. This title also available Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Language: Английский

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The Poetics of Performance Diagrams DOI

Andrej Mirčev

Published: June 5, 2024

This Element considers the concept of performance diagrams and shows their historical, epistemic aesthetic functions in theatre dance. In three sections, author surveys architectural model by Vitruvius, woodcut Marlow's Doctor Faustus, Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne-Atlas, spells drawings Antonin Artaud, Paradise Now (the Living Theatre) choreography I am 1984 (Barbara Matijević). Demonstrating that can be applied to multiply dramaturgical trajectories, text reviews relevance for performance-making, analysis documentation. The argues provide new tools theory, practice archiving, while at same time enabling reflection on intersections between poetics politics. Focusing potentiality cut through representation dichotomies, this affirms visual, corporeal spatial dimensions performance-making. doing so, it elucidates significance diagrammatic thinking studies.

Language: Английский

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Exploring numerology for businesses: a bold leap of faith DOI Creative Commons
Kumaraguru Mahadevan

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12(1)

Published: March 28, 2025

Language: Английский

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Comedy and Controversy DOI Open Access
Sarah Balkin, Marc Mierowsky

Published: Dec. 18, 2024

This is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when distinction between two breaks down, enters – or pushed into sphere interpreted according to scripts that govern popular political media rhetoric rather than traditional generic conventions of comic performance. These raise a larger set questions comedian's role. They draw attention intention jokes their effects in world. And they force us consider how limits performance what can be said, by whom, why respond to, reshape, discourse across changing contexts.

Language: Английский

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1