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Meaning and Meaninglessness : = The Global Standup Explosion = Sens et non-sens : l'explosion mondiale du stand-up.

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Reminder of title:	The Global Standup Explosion = Sens et non-sens : l'explosion mondiale du stand-up.
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Author:	Valen Levinson, Adam.
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Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-01A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
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ISBN:	9798379781545

Meaning and Meaninglessness : = The Global Standup Explosion = Sens et non-sens : l'explosion mondiale du stand-up.
Valen Levinson, Adam.

Meaning and Meaninglessness :The Global Standup Explosion = Sens et non-sens : l'explosion mondiale du stand-up.Sens et non-sens :l'explosion mondiale du stand-up. - 1 online resource (240 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation investigates the social and cultural significance of the global standup explosion. An unignorable social fact - viewers of more than ten standup specials jumped 60% just between 2018-19, at least half of Netflix users have watched at least one, comedy clubs are their own pandemic - the live comedy phenomenon offers a novel chance to analyze large-scale cultural attitudes and trends. The analysis explores distinct aspects (scales) of humor in three chapters. Chapter One statistically analyzes specific jokes and their reception, surveying whether they are found funny and offensive by respondents. The study reveals that individual reactions to jokes can reveal salient distinctions between demographic groups, highlighting deep symbolic boundaries. Chapter Two examines the content creators and their inextricable audience, identifying what defines a comic. Defending the comic as a kind of Everyman proxy, the research demonstrates that various factors, including age, gender, and ethnic categories, can operate in the same way as Du Bois' theory of double consciousness. Proposed: a revision of Du Boisian thinking, and a reckoning with the multiplicity of modern identity. Chapter Three focuses on the maintenance of the (now sacred) norm of "authenticity" in standup comedy, identifying how comedians reference themselves, their profession, and their past jokes to maintain authenticity. The study reveals that performers are increasingly "going meta" to guard against the moral accusation of inauthenticity. A theoretical introduction, Chapter Zero, presents a case study of the 2020 Blackout Tuesday movement to develop a theory of "ambivalent action," which involves deliberate intention to communicate two messages at once. Arguing that humor is an archetypal ambivalent action, the dissertation concludes that standup occupies the unique intersection between authenticity, a norm that begs fulfilling, and ambivalence, a means to fulfill it. As a final implication: if ambivalence can reconcile incongruities at much at the level of a pun as at the level of an identity crisis, standup comedy has the potential to address the most irreducible dissonances in modern culture structures. Can something be both meaningful and meaningless? And: is there meaning in meaninglessness?

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Ann Arbor, Mich. :
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2024

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520 $a Cette these etudie la signification sociale et culturelle de l'explosion mondiale du stand-up. Un fait social incontournable - les telespectateurs de plus de dix emissions speciales de stand-up ont bondi de 60% rien qu'entre 2018 et 2019, au moins la moitie des utilisateurs de Netflix en ont regarde au moins une, les clubs de comedie sont leur propre pandemie - le phenomene de la comedie en direct offre une nouvelle chance d'analyser attitudes et tendances culturelles a grande echelle. L'analyse explore des aspects distincts (echelles) de l'humour en trois chapitres. Le premier chapitre analyse statistiquement des blagues specifiques et leur reception, en verifiant si elles sont trouvees droles et offensantes par les repondants. L'etude revele que les reactions individuelles aux blagues peuvent reveler des distinctions saillantes entre les groupes demographiques, mettant en evidence des frontieres symboliques profondes. Le chapitre deux examine les createurs de contenu et leur public inextricable, identifiant ce qui definit une bande dessinee. Defendant la bande dessinee comme une sorte de proxy Everyman, la recherche demontre que divers facteurs, notamment l'age, le sexe et les categories ethniques, peuvent fonctionner de la meme maniere que la theorie de la double conscience de Du Bois. Propose : une revision de la pensee du boisienne, et une prise en compte de la multiplicite de l'identite moderne. Le chapitre trois se concentre sur le maintien de la norme (desormais sacree) de «l'authenticite» dans la comedie stand-up, identifiant comment les comediens se referent a eux-memes, a leur profession et a leurs blagues passees pour maintenir l'authenticite. L'etude revele que les artistes-interpretes « deviennent de plus en plus meta » pour se premunir contre l'accusation morale d'inauthenticite. Une introduction theorique, Chapter Zero, presente une etude de cas du mouvement Blackout Tuesday 2020 pour developper une theorie de «l'action ambivalente», qui implique une intention deliberee de communiquer deux messages a la fois. Arguant que l'humour est une action ambivalente archetypale, la these conclut que le stand-up occupe l'intersection unique entre l'authenticite, une norme qui demande a etre remplie, et l'ambivalence, un moyen de la remplir. Comme derniere implication : si l'ambivalence peut reconcilier les incongruites tant au niveau d'un jeu de mots qu'au niveau d'une crise d'identite, la comedie stand-up a le potentiel d'aborder les dissonances les plus irreductibles dans les structures de la culture moderne. Quelque chose peut-il etre a la fois significatif et denue de sens ? Et : y a-t-il un sens dans le non-sens ?
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