Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

by James M. Thomas

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739189557
• ISBN13: 9780739189559
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"