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The comic offense from vaudeville to contemporary comedy : Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle
\"The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and The Three Keatons, and moving through the silent and early sound films of the early 1930s, the author looks at how comic writer/performers continue to sell a brand of themselves as a form of social commentary in order to confront and dispel stereotypes of race, class, and gender. The first study to explore contemporary popular comic culture and its influence on American society from this unique perspective, Rick DesRochers analyzes stand-up and improvisational comedy writing/performing in the work of Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle. He grounds these choices by examining their evolution as they developed signature characters and sketches for their respective shows Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, The Colbert Report, and Chappelle's Show\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Britain had talent : a history of variety theatre
This work examines British variety theatre, providing a detailed history of this art form and analysing its performance dynamics and techniques. Encompassing singers, comedians, dancers, magicians, ventriloquists and diverse speciality acts, it draws on a series of new interviews with variety veterans.
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Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925
Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also America's most popular commercial amusement from the mid-1890s to the First World War; at its peak, 5 million Americans attended vaudeville shows every week. Telling the story of this pioneering art form's rise and decline, David Monod looks through the apparent carnival of vaudeville performance and asks: what made the theater so popular and transformative? Although he acknowledges its quirkiness, Monod makes the case that vaudeville became so popular because it offered audiences a guide to a modern urban lifestyle. Vaudeville acts celebrated sharp city styles and denigrated old-fashioned habits, showcased new music and dance moves, and promulgated a deeply influential vernacular modernism. The variety show's off-the-rack trendiness perfectly suited an era when goods and services were becoming more affordable and the mass market promised to democratize style, offering a clear vision of how the quintessential twentieth-century citizen should look, talk, move, feel, and act.
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L'unione tra le muse. Musica e teatro in Russia nel primo trentennio del XIX secolo
Musica e teatro in Russia nel primo trentennio del xix secolo, Aracne, Roma 2013, pp. 189. Giuliano porta avanti un'analisi piuttosto originale delle due pièce, cercando di trovare simili- tudini tra i procedimenti letterari adottati dal drammaturgo e dal compositore e quelli tipici del tea- tro musicale settecentesco, in particolare italiano. La pièce interessa essenzialmente all'autrice per il suo spiccato carattere metateatrale: \"F.G. Volkov è una pièce metateatrale a più livelli, è 'teatro nel teatro' in quanto contiene al suo interno la messa in scena della pastorale; è 'teatro sul teatro', ovvero teatro che parla di se stesso, si 'difende' e si 'giustifica', raccontando la storia della propria nascita; è, infine, parodia del dramma pastorale e si avvicina per certi aspetti al genere del 'metamelodramma'\" (p. 127), cioè il melodramma dove sono protagonisti personaggi legati al mondo del teatro e della musica, come compositori o attori.
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