About this book series
Comedy is thriving. While a certain strand of culture warriors may posit that ‘comedy is dead’, we are simply in a new era, as older manifestations such as performance, film, and TV are joined by the products of an online industry pioneered by YouTube and social media platforms, and as former taste boundaries around race, gender, sexuality, and disability shift with the times. This pioneering international book series has helped define the emerging comedy studies field, setting new markers for rigour and opening up fresh avenues for discussion. The series is 'pop cultural' in focus, and emphasizes stand-up, variety, vaudeville, comedy film, TV comedy, and digital comedy. It welcomes studies of the history, politics, aesthetics, production, distribution, and reception of comedy, as well as work that explores international perspectives on comedy and comedy in the digital realm, from a range of disciplines and methodological approaches. Comedy may be thriving, but have we become funnier people – professionally, personally, and as a community? Maybe. Maybe not. Context is everything. This book series is about comedy in context – and what’s at stake when we laugh.
- Electronic ISSN
- 2731-4340
- Print ISSN
- 2731-4332
- Series Editor
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- Roger Sabin,
- Sharon Lockyer
