Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues - James M. Thomas - Books - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - 9780739189559 - January 21, 2015
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Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

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Through intensive fieldwork lasting over eighteen months, this book demonstrates that the stand-up comedy venue is a dynamic space where social actors contest and reproduce dominant understandings of race, class, and gender in ways that transcend the joke-work performed on stage.


182 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 21, 2015
ISBN13 9780739189559
Publishers Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pages 182
Dimensions 160 × 238 × 24 mm   ·   436 g
Language English  

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