Sam Friedman, Comedy and distinction. The cultural currency of a ‘good’ sense of humour
The contemporary debates over cultural consumption tend to leave a few disciplines aside and to focus, especially, on music, fine arts, and mass culture. Comedy is one of those ignored items. Despite the richness of works on the sociology of humour, it is very rarely studied as a cultural object. I...
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Lectures
2019
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | The contemporary debates over cultural consumption tend to leave a few disciplines aside and to focus, especially, on music, fine arts, and mass culture. Comedy is one of those ignored items. Despite the richness of works on the sociology of humour, it is very rarely studied as a cultural object. In Comedy and distinction, Sam Friedman applies a cultural consumption framework to the field of British comedy, grounded in the empirical study of comedy audience at a festival. The book has two pr... |
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