Deadpan Effect
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Deadpan Effect
""Deadpan Effect"" explores the art and science behind deadpan humor, revealing why delivering jokes with a straight face can be surprisingly effective. By examining the intersection of performing arts and psychology, the book dissects how this comedic technique manipulates audience expectations. Intriguingly, deadpan leverages incongruity, presenting absurd material with utter sincerity, which forces the audience to actively engage with the humor. This approach, mastered by comedic legends like Buster Keaton, demonstrates that less emotion can lead to a more profound comedic experience. The book begins by introducing core concepts of humor theory and rhetorical strategy, then progresses to analyzing specific techniques like understatement and irony. Through case studies of prominent deadpan performers and connections to cognitive psychology, ""Deadpan Effect"" offers a systematic analysis of deadpan's underlying mechanisms. It reveals how the strategic use of nonverbal cues and silence amplifies comedic effect. Ultimately, the book provides a valuable framework for understanding and appreciating this subtle yet powerful form of comedy.
Trickster Lives
Author: Jeanne Campbell Reesman
language: en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date: 2001-01-01
At once criminal and savior, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. Usually a figure both culturally specific and transcendent, trickster leads the way to the unconscious, the concealed, and the seemingly unattainable. This book offers thirteen interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African America, Native America, Pacific Rim, and Latino writers, as well as an examination of trickster politics. This collection conveys the trickster's imprint on the modern world.
Audiobooks as Artifacts
Author: David Seinberg
language: en
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Release Date: 2024-06-19
Their ever-evolving popularity notwithstanding, audiobooks remain a rather undertheorized phenomenon. The prevailing handful of existing studies seem to have adopted an inherently historicist approach, which fails to identify and scrutinize their aesthetic importance. Thus, rather than regarding them as mere recorded ‘versions’ of existing literary works, this book explores them as the unique products of a hitherto undefined artistic genre. As performance-based aural artefacts, the very act of listening to them is rendered an aesthetic experience in its own right. By effectively embracing an interdisciplinary approach and introducing a set of aesthetic questions and philosophical conundrums (ignited by a paradigmatic application of the New Institutional Theory of Art), this study establishes a new aesthetic category—which, in turn, not only classifies audiobooks as artworks to all intents and purposes, but also generates the criteria and parameters for evaluating their merit. Since the proof of the proverbial pudding is purportedly in the eating, in surveying a series of concrete case studies—each highlighting different degrees of complexities—this study mainly examines first-person narratives as the most natural medium for the aesthetics of the audiobook. As such, the investigation herein provides one with comparative close listenings, appropriately analyzing and debating their aesthetic properties. Finally, in exploring what this study identifies as one’s informed intuition and its role in the craft of casting audiobooks, this study also proposes a new understating of how aesthetic appreciation works in action.