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Informationen zum Autor James M. Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. His research has been featured in international, peer-reviewed journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, and Ethnography. His first monograph is entitled Working to Laugh: Assembling Race and Heteronormativity in an American Stand-Up Comedy Club (Lexington, 2014) Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Into the Field: The Comedy Kitchen and Helter SkelterChapter 3: Affective Labor and The Comedy KitchenChapter 4: Affective Labor and Helter SkelterChapter 5: Assembling Order in Stand-Up ComedyChapter 6: Stand-Up Comedy, Urban Nightlife, and Affective-Cultural AssemblagesChapter 7: Coda - SoleilChapter 8: ConclusionAppendix A: Methodology Bibliography
