Add to ORKGThis introduction establishes the theme for a special issue of the journal Comedy Studies. Interrogating the historical relationship between gender and comedy this article will examine contemporary examples of male and female comics who actively address these issues in their live work as well as their writing. Drawing on film, tv, literature and practice, the introduction will offer a key outline of the debates under discussion in this special issue
The article presents a research overview on developments in the field of gender and humour over the ...
The goal of this project was to produce a short documentary analyzing the intersection of women, com...
With the current state of the world and COVD-19 pandemic that pervaded 2020, the majority of individ...
textFemale stand-up comics occupy a permanently liminal space which can be broken down into three sm...
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholar...
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholar...
ii This study examines the social worlds of standup comediennes. Data were collected through partici...
Gender and comics is a huge and complex field, so this essay can only flag up a few key themes: firs...
This paper unpacks some of the complexities of the female comic project, focussing on the creation o...
In the last five years there has been great public interest in Hollywood’s “gender problem,” namely ...
This study explores the stance of women in comedy and in particular the assumption that self-depreca...
Are humour and laughter gender-specific? The simple answer, like most everything that is ideological...
Women have traditionally been seen as lacking humor (Lakoff, 2004). Men have been dominating humorou...
Until recently - with the likes of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler achieving dazzling success with 30 Rock ...
This dissertation demonstrates the ways in which gender plays a role in the validating of authentici...
The article presents a research overview on developments in the field of gender and humour over the ...
The goal of this project was to produce a short documentary analyzing the intersection of women, com...
With the current state of the world and COVD-19 pandemic that pervaded 2020, the majority of individ...
textFemale stand-up comics occupy a permanently liminal space which can be broken down into three sm...
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholar...
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholar...
ii This study examines the social worlds of standup comediennes. Data were collected through partici...
Gender and comics is a huge and complex field, so this essay can only flag up a few key themes: firs...
This paper unpacks some of the complexities of the female comic project, focussing on the creation o...
In the last five years there has been great public interest in Hollywood’s “gender problem,” namely ...
This study explores the stance of women in comedy and in particular the assumption that self-depreca...
Are humour and laughter gender-specific? The simple answer, like most everything that is ideological...
Women have traditionally been seen as lacking humor (Lakoff, 2004). Men have been dominating humorou...
Until recently - with the likes of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler achieving dazzling success with 30 Rock ...
This dissertation demonstrates the ways in which gender plays a role in the validating of authentici...
The article presents a research overview on developments in the field of gender and humour over the ...
The goal of this project was to produce a short documentary analyzing the intersection of women, com...
With the current state of the world and COVD-19 pandemic that pervaded 2020, the majority of individ...