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Lauren Feldman & Caty Borum Chattoo 
A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar 
The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice

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‘A comprehensive and insightful examination of the ways comedy can help shape social justice movements.’––Hasan Minhaj, Comedian and Host of the Netflix series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
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.

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List of Illustrations

Foreword by Norman Lear

Acknowledgments


PART I: COMEDY AMDIST A CONTMEPORARY LANDSCAPE OF INFLUENCE AND INFORMATION


Introduction

1. Why Comedy, and Why Now?

2. How Comedy Works as a Change Agent

3. From Stand-Up to Sitcoms: Socially Critical

Comedy across Genres


PART II: COMEDY IN SOCIAL JUSTICE CHALLENGES


4. Can Laughter Help Save the Planet? Comedy’s Role in

Communicating about Climate Change

5. Beyond Poverty Porn: How Comedy Reframes

Poverty and Engages Publics


PART III: LEVERAGING COMEDY FOR SOCIAL CHANGE


6. Comedians’ Perspectives on the Intersections of

Art and Activism

7. Creative Collaborations: How Comedians and

Social Justice Advocates Work Together

8. Imagining the Future of Comedy’s Role in Social Justice


Appendix A: Methodological Details and Full

Results from Chapter 4


Appendix B: Methodological Overview and Main

Results from Chapter 5


Appendix C: Comedy Professionals Interviewed

for Chapter 6


Notes

About the Authors

Index

Об авторе

Caty Borum Chattoo is Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact and Assistant Professor at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, DC.Lauren Feldman is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University.
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язык английский ● Формат EPUB ● страницы 296 ● ISBN 9780520971356 ● Размер файла 5.1 MB ● издатель University of California Press ● опубликованный 2020 ● Издание 1 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 7328116 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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