[ecrea] CFP: Comedy and Audiences

>Special Issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
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>The theme of this issue will be a general 
>exploration of the comedy audience, with both 
>theoretical and empirical research welcomed on 
>all aspects of comedy reception. The issue will 
>be particularly interested in the notion of the 
>power of the comedy audience, examining the 
>extent to which comic audiences are aware of 
>their position (or lack of) as comedy mediators, 
>and how far audience status is a recognised and 
>articulated notion. Possible, though not exclusive, topics include:
>
>·      Comedy fandom(s);
>
>·      Comedy taste(s);
>
>·      Responses to cultural representations in comedy;
>
>·      Empirical studies of particular comedy 
>programmes, films, stand-up performances and other comedy texts;
>
>·      The particularities and specifics of comedy audiences;
>
>·      Comedy audiences in regional, local, 
>national and international contexts;
>
>·      Comedy in all its forms, and across a 
>range of media and performance contexts;
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>·      Differences in comedy audiences, due to 
>contexts such as age, nationality, belief system, and so on.
>
>Please send expressions of interest, including a 
>short abstract, to Tom Phillips 
>((T.Phillips /at/ uea.ac.uk)) by 10 December 2010. 
>Please also contact Tom with any queries or 
>requests for further information. Completed 
>articles will have a submission deadline of 10 June 2011.
>
>The issue will be edited by Sam Friedman, Brett Mills and Tom Phillips.
>
>Note that Participations operates an 
>open-refereeing policy. For more information see 
>the website (http://www.participations.org).
>
>

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