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Comedy capital - Work's intimacy
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Jul 6, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
British comedy, from Music Hall to TV sitcom, was once a democratic medium. Humour united people otherwise divided by class and education. But new research finds that the Alternative Comedy Movement transformed comedy's place in our culture. It rejected the 'lowbrow' tone of earlier humour, creating the basis for comic taste to provide new forms of social distinction. The sociologist, Sam Friedman joins Laurie Taylor to debate comedy snobbery. Also, mobile communications have elided the distinction between work and home. The cultural studies lecturer, Melissa Gregg, and the Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Rosalind Gill, ask if the lines between our personal and professional lives are increasingly blurred.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
Released:
Jul 6, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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