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What’s so funny? Audiences of women’s stand-up comedy and layered referential viewing: Exploring identity and power
The Communication Review Pub Date : 2019-04-03 , DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1599666
S. Katherine Cooper 1
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ABSTRACT In this paper, I discuss audience reactions to stand-up clips by Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Margaret Cho. Women’s comedy is arguably at the height of its popularity, but there is a seeming lack of research on audience interpretations of humor produced by women. This research builds on and extends current notions of “referential viewing” in audience research. Utilizing focus group analysis, I elaborate audience decoding practices and the role of identity in layers of referential viewing. Audiences in this research centered their discussions on identification of the comedians, identification of the targets of jokes, and identification of whom they perceive to be the intended audience. Discussed are implications for how audiences understand various power dynamics through humor and distinctions created between comedy that “laughs with” or that “laughs at.”

中文翻译:

有什么好笑的?女性单口喜剧和分层参考观看的观众:探索身份和权力

摘要 在本文中,我讨论了观众对 Amy Schumer、Wanda Sykes 和 Margaret Cho 的单口相声剪辑的反应。女性喜剧可以说正处于其受欢迎程度的顶峰,但似乎缺乏对观众对女性幽默的解释的研究。这项研究建立在并扩展了当前受众研究中“参考观看”的概念。利用焦点小组分析,我详细阐述了观众解码实践和身份在参考观看层中的作用。这项研究中的观众将他们的讨论集中在喜剧演员的识别、笑话的目标的识别以及他们认为的目标观众的识别上。
更新日期:2019-04-03
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