Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity, Politics
'This is a fantastically exciting book, one which both forensically interrogates the cultural significance of Brand as a comedian but which also places him at the heart of a much bigger intellectual narrative about comic celebrity and its increasing impac
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Comedy is part of the cultural landscape as never before, as older manifestations such as performance (stand-up, plays, etc.), film and TV have been joined by an online industry, pioneered by YouTube and social media. This innovative new book series will help define the emerging comedy studies field, offering fresh perspectives on the comedy studies phenomenon, and opening up new avenues for discussion. The focus is ‘pop cultural’, and will emphasize vaudeville, stand-up, variety, comedy film, TV sit-coms, and digital comedy. It will not cover humor in literature, comedy in ‘everyday life’, or the psychology of joke-telling. It will welcome studies of politics, history, aesthetics, production, distribution, and reception, as well as work that explores international perspectives and the digital realm. Above all it will be pioneering – there is no competition in the publishing world at this point in time.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14644
Jane Arthurs • Ben Little
Russell Brand Comedy, Celebrity, Politics
Jane Arthurs Middlesex University London, United Kingdom
Ben Little University of East Anglia Norwich, United Kingdom
Palgrave Studies in Comedy ISBN 978-1-137-59627-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59628-4
ISBN 978-1-137-59628-4 (eBook)
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