This article addresses the mechanisms by which contemporary British comedy about disability is allowed to be funny. It argues that the available academic literature on the phenomenon is scant and a critical public vocabulary missing
In this article, the author demonstrates that contemporary cultural disability discourses offer few ...
The article was originally researched and presented to consider issues of taste in this ‘New British...
This article addresses the subject of stand-up and mental health through the prism of comic persona,...
The stand-up comedy landscape has been transformed in recent years with an increased number of disab...
For over 25 years television broadcasters, regulators and critics have been, and continue to be, uni...
This interdisciplinary article presents research about the place of disability in the British sitcom...
AbstractThis article is concerned to bring together the traditions of the textual and institutional ...
Characters with disabilities or any type of impairment have been present in film productions since t...
The Edinburgh festival fringe is the inspiration for this article which offers an initial considerat...
Historically, disabled people have not been viewed as innovators of humor because disability is asso...
This paper argues that the relationship between disability and rehabilitation is best explained in t...
This article proposes the value of investigating audience interpretations as viewing performances to...
In most societies disabled people are subject to taboo, in terms of laughing at their weaknesses, fa...
Those who live outside the world of disability culture may believe the words disability and humor do...
Like all forms of resistance, comedy can both shore up and legitimate existing political structures,...
In this article, the author demonstrates that contemporary cultural disability discourses offer few ...
The article was originally researched and presented to consider issues of taste in this ‘New British...
This article addresses the subject of stand-up and mental health through the prism of comic persona,...
The stand-up comedy landscape has been transformed in recent years with an increased number of disab...
For over 25 years television broadcasters, regulators and critics have been, and continue to be, uni...
This interdisciplinary article presents research about the place of disability in the British sitcom...
AbstractThis article is concerned to bring together the traditions of the textual and institutional ...
Characters with disabilities or any type of impairment have been present in film productions since t...
The Edinburgh festival fringe is the inspiration for this article which offers an initial considerat...
Historically, disabled people have not been viewed as innovators of humor because disability is asso...
This paper argues that the relationship between disability and rehabilitation is best explained in t...
This article proposes the value of investigating audience interpretations as viewing performances to...
In most societies disabled people are subject to taboo, in terms of laughing at their weaknesses, fa...
Those who live outside the world of disability culture may believe the words disability and humor do...
Like all forms of resistance, comedy can both shore up and legitimate existing political structures,...
In this article, the author demonstrates that contemporary cultural disability discourses offer few ...
The article was originally researched and presented to consider issues of taste in this ‘New British...
This article addresses the subject of stand-up and mental health through the prism of comic persona,...