{"product_id":"comedy-and-controversy-sarah-balkin-9781009565356","title":"Comedy and Controversy","description":"This is an Element book about stand-up comedy and public speech. It focuses on the controversies generated when the distinction between the two breaks down, when stand-up enters - or is pushed - into the public sphere and is interpreted according to the scripts that govern popular political and media rhetoric rather than the traditional generic conventions of comic performance. These controversies raise a larger set of questions about the comedian's public role. They draw attention to the intention of jokes and their effects in the world. And they force us to consider how the limits of comic performance - what can be said, by whom, and why - respond to, and can reshape, public discourse across changing media contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Balkin, Marc Mierowsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1009565354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781009565356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Sarah Balkin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46927774515455,"sku":"9781009565356","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f57386ea-37f2-496f-90c1-ee447d09176b.jpg?v=1749372924","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/comedy-and-controversy-sarah-balkin-9781009565356","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}