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dc.contributor.author | Lockyer, S | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-05T13:50:16Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-08-05T13:50:16Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Comedy Studies, 2(2), 113 - 123, 2011 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2040-610X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/cost/2011/00000002/00000002/art00003 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8841 | - |
dc.description | This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2011 Intellect. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This article employs sociocultural analysis to examine Joan Rivers’ stand-up comedy performances in order to reveal how she successfully operates in a sphere of artistic expression that has been, and continues to be, male-dominated. The analysis uncovers how Rivers’ stand-up comedy performance involves a complex combination of elements and how it fuses features that are regarded as ‘traditionally masculine’, such as aggression, with features frequently used by other female stand-up comedians, such as self-deprecating comedy and confessional comedy. Furthermore, the analysis exposes the complex ways in which constructions of gender and sexuality are negotiated and re-negotiated in Rivers’ stand-up comedy performance, and illustrates how dominant ideological identity constructions can be simultaneously reinforced and subverted within the same comic moment. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Intellect | en_US |
dc.subject | Gender | en_US |
dc.subject | Sexuality | en_US |
dc.subject | Stand-up comedy | en_US |
dc.subject | Joan Rivers | en_US |
dc.subject | Self-deprecation | en_US |
dc.subject | Ageing female body | en_US |
dc.subject | Masculine discourses | en_US |
dc.title | From toothpick legs to dropping vaginas: Gender and sexuality in Joan Rivers' stand-up comedy performance | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cost.2.2.113_1 | - |
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pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by Institute/Theme/Institute of Environmental, Health and Societies/Social Sciences and Health | - |
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