Humour and Social Protest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humour and Social Protest write by Marjolein 't Hart. This book was released on 2007. Humour and Social Protest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The seventeen essays in this book examine the power of humour in framing social and political protest.
Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements
Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements write by A. Yalcintas. This book was released on 2015-02-03. Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired musicians, film-makers, social scientists and other creative individuals, out of a concern for the aesthetics of the protests, rather than seizure of political power.
A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar
A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar write by Caty Borum Chattoo. This book was released on 2020-03-24. A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comedy is a powerful contemporary source of influence and information. In the still-evolving digital era, the opportunity to consume and share comedy has never been as available. And yet, despite its vast cultural imprint, comedy is a little-understood vehicle for serious public engagement in urgent social justice issues – even though humor offers frames of hope and optimism that can encourage participation in social problems. Moreover, in the midst of a merger of entertainment and news in the contemporary information ecology, and a decline in perceptions of trust in government and traditional media institutions, comedy may be a unique force for change in pressing social justice challenges. Comedians who say something serious about the world while they make us laugh are capable of mobilizing the masses, focusing a critical lens on injustices, and injecting hope and optimism into seemingly hopeless problems. By combining communication and social justice frameworks with contemporary comedy examples, authors Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman show us how comedy can help to serve as a vehicle of change. Through rich case studies, audience research, and interviews with comedians and social justice leaders and strategists, A Comedian and an Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice explains how comedy – both in the entertainment marketplace and as cultural strategy – can engage audiences with issues such as global poverty, climate change, immigration, and sexual assault, and how activists work with comedy to reach and empower publics in the networked, participatory digital media age.
Humorous Political Stunts
Humorous Political Stunts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humorous Political Stunts write by Majken Jul Sørensen. This book was released on 2015. Humorous Political Stunts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A group of anti-conscription activists break into a prison, demanding to be jailed together with their friend already locked up because of his beliefs. Clowns from the rebel clown army mimic police sent to control political protests. Visiting Santas hand out presents taken from shop shelves without the approval of the shopping centre management. These are examples of humorous political stunts - public actions, hoaxes and happenings that confront systems of power. This book contains many amusing stories of such stunts, showing the boldness and creativity of the activists. Interviews and documents are used to show how humour can facilitate outreach, mobilisation and a culture of resistance. Humorous Political Stunts combines insights from the fields of nonviolence and humour studies and makes theoretical contributions to each area.
Standing Up, Speaking Out
Standing Up, Speaking Out - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Standing Up, Speaking Out write by Matthew R. Meier. This book was released on 2016-10-14. Standing Up, Speaking Out available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from political leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little attention has been paid to stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing conversation about stand-up comedy from the perspective of the rhetorical tradition. It brings together literatures from rhetorical, cultural, and humor studies to provide a unique exploration of stand-up comedy that both argues on behalf of the form’s capacity for social change and attempts to draw attention to a series of otherwise unrecognized rhetors who have made significant contributions to public culture through comedy.
