[ecrea] Call for Papers: Analysing Stand-Up Comedy for a special edition of 'Comedy Studies'

> Call for Papers: Analysing Stand-Up Comedy for a special edition of 
> 'Comedy Studies', edited by Sharon Lockyer (Brunel), Brett Mills 
> (East Anglia) and Louise Peacock (Hull).
>
> Despite being a huge cultural phenomenon relatively little academic 
> attention has been paid to the detailed and systematic analysis of 
> stand-up comedy as a form of performance with its own specificities 
> and characteristics. This edition of Comedy Studies aims to explore 
> the range of ways in which specific instances of stand-up comedy can 
> be examined from a variety of perspectives, bringing together a 
> variety of methods to highlight and interrogate the multiple ways 
> stand-up comedy may be thought about.
>
> In order to do this, the edition will take one piece of stand-up 
> comedy and invite authors to analyse it from a range of 
> perspectives, resulting in an edition which examines the same text 
> from a wide variety of approaches. This piece of stand-up is Joan 
> Rivers Live at the Apollo, which can be accessed via the two links below:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNUkLzi46OI&feature=related  (part 1)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXEt2gYcweQ&feature=related  (part 2)
> We already have authors covering: sociological approaches; humour 
> theory; performance analysis. Proposals for papers are therefore 
> invited from any other applicable discipline or approach, such as: 
> narratology; psychoanalytic theory; phenomenology; linguistics; 
> aesthetics. This list is indicative only, and as the edition aims to 
> be productively interdisciplinary, we encourage proposals from as 
> wide a range of approaches as possible.
>
> Please send expressions of interest, including a short abstract, to 
> Brett Mills ((brett.mills /at/ uea.ac.uk)) by Friday 7th January 2011.
> Please also contact Brett with any queries or requests for further 
> information.
> The submission of first drafts will have a deadline of Friday 27th 
> May 2011, with any required revisions submitted by Friday 1st July 2011.
> For more information on 'Comedy Studies' see 
> http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=185/
> Dr Sharon Lockyer
> Lecturer in Sociology and Communications
> School of Social Sciences
> Brunel University
> Uxbridge
> Middlesex
> UB8 3PH
> UK
> Email: (Sharon.Lockyer /at/ brunel.ac.uk)<mailto:(Sharon.Lockyer /at/ brunel.ac.uk)>

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