The Myth of Inclusivity: exploring barriers to representation in stand-up comedy through Leicester Comedy Festival's archive (1994-)

包容性的神话：通过莱斯特喜剧节的档案探索单口喜剧表演的障碍（1994-）

• 批准号: 2761306
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: De Montfort University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2761306
• 关键词: Myth; Inclusivity; exploring; barriers; representation

Leicester-based registered charity Big Difference Company uses comedy to produce social change, an aim partly achieved through the context for this research - Leicester Comedy Festival. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2023, LCF started as a DMU student project in 1994. Led by its founding director, Geoff Rowe BEM, BDC's LCF is the UK's largest dedicated comedy festival. BDC's charitable objectives mean it nurtures emerging talent through collaborations with DMULocal, the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year award, and comedy training workshops. One aim of this PhD is to theorise the 'unspeakable' barriers to equality in comedy so informing how BDC/LCF target interventions. A DMU strategic partner, BDC's LCF festival provides a supportive research environment for BA and MA student placements and research projects. Geoff Rowe is a DMU honorand and lectures annually at the university. In 2014 Rowe introduced the 'I say Comedy Conversations', interviews with significant comedians regarding comedy's history and practices, providing unique insights for students and researchers. This CDA is the culmination of nearly three decades of collaboration between DMU and LFC. From 2008-2014, the Playing for Laughs symposia provided an academic focus on comedy's social impacts, identifying its ability to represent different perspectives and transform narratives as sources of empowerment. The annual Beyond a Joke seminar programme (2015 - present) continues this push to theorise comedic practice as cultural intervention and critique and foster dialogue between industry professionals, academics and comics. These conversations between all areas of the comedy industry are vital in exploring barriers to participation and in widening understanding of LCF as a microcosm of the comedy industry. In 2021 virtual panels focused on the industry and the comedy economy of the East Midlands, paving the way for this collaboration with its focus on the conditions of comedy production and their impacts on comedy practices.

总部位于莱斯特的注册慈善机构Big Distrion Company使用喜剧来产生社会变革，这是通过本研究的一部分 - 莱斯特喜剧节的背景下实现的目标。 LCF于2023年庆祝成立30周年，最初是1994年的DMU学生项目。由其创始总监Geoff Rowe Bem领导，BDC的LCF是英国最大的专用喜剧节。 BDC的慈善目标意味着它通过与Dmulocal，莱斯特水星年度喜剧演员奖和喜剧培训讲习班Dmulocal的合作来培养新兴的人才。该博士的目的之一是理论喜剧中平等的“难以言喻的”障碍，以告知BDC/LCF目标干预措施。 BDC的LCF音乐节是DMU战略合作伙伴，为BA和MA学生安置和研究项目提供了支持性的研究环境。杰夫·罗（Geoff Rowe）是DMU荣誉和每年在大学的演讲。 2014年，罗（Rowe）介绍了“我说喜剧对话”，与重要喜剧演员有关喜剧的历史和实践的访谈，为学生和研究人员提供了独特的见解。该CDA是DMU和LFC之间将近三十年合作的结晶。从2008 - 2014年开始，《笑声》研讨会的演奏提供了对喜剧的社会影响的学术重点，从而确定了其代表不同观点并将叙事转变为赋权来源的能力。年度《超越笑话》研讨会计划（2015年 - 现在）继续推进理论上的喜剧实践，因为文化干预，批评和促进了行业专业人员，学者和漫画之间的对话。喜剧行业所有领域之间的对话对于探索参与的障碍以及扩大对LCF作为喜剧行业的缩影至关重要。 2021年，虚拟面板着重于东部中部地区的行业和喜剧经济，为这种合作铺平了道路，其重点是喜剧制作条件及其对喜剧实践的影响。