Sharon Lockyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3687967 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sharon Lockyer |
| PRENOMES | Sharon |
| SOBRENOME | Lockyer |
| ASSINATURA | LOCKYER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4941-8067 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The social role of humour in classroom management
This theoretically-informed paper brings together the fields of education and humour studies to examine the complexities of humour in social interaction and relationships in school classrooms. We address the lack of understanding of humour in the classroom, and the nuances of education and humour, in examples of contemporary English education policy. We argue that education and humour are theoretically aligned in their social purpose of creating …
The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy
Stand-up comedy is one of the simplest theatre forms in existence. The comedian stands on a (usually) bare stage, talking straight to the audience in the hope of getting laughs. Yet it has never been more popular, with national scenes developing across every continent except Antarctica. In this insightful and accessibly written volume, diverse chapters explore the subject from many angles, ranging from national scenes, live venues, and recordings…
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy
As an autobiographical mode of performance, stand-up comedy is interlinked with debates on identity, inequality and social justice. While much of the existing stand-up comedy and identity literature has prioritised the analysis of a single axis of identity, this study significantly extends existing analysis to examine intersectionality in stand-up comedy. Taking an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical approach derived from humour studies and …
Performing pregnancy
Stand-up comedy has recently become a primary site where representations of pregnancy are increasingly prevalent. Yet little academic work focuses on pregnant stand-up comedians and their performances. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this article examines the cultural work of pregnant stand-up comedy. Thematic analysis of pregnant stand-up comedy by Amy Schumer, Ellie Taylor and Ali Wong identifies three significant features characterising …
Alternative Comedy Now and Then
Alternative Comedy Now and Then
On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology
Humour and comedy have gained increased significance in academic research in recent years. This article examines the importance of humour and comedy as valuable tools in qualitative social science research methodology. It makes the original contribution of utilizing humour and comedy theory, and critical understandings of both their macro and micro mechanisms and functions, to argue that humour and comedy can accommodate, and indeed, expedite, so…
Rape jokes aren’t funny
The #MeToo campaign has reminded us that male sexual violence, harassment, and abuse towards women is not a new phenomenon. But alongside the visibility of the perpetrators and experiences of myriad women, this recent campaign raises a set of questions as to how this type of violence towards women is normalised and legitimated. Our focus here is on the ways in which male sexual violence towards women is normalised and legitimated through the use …
Introduction
International Journal of Humor Research.He is best-known for his work on jokes and their targets: ethnic jokes, political jokes, lawyer jokes, religious jokes, mother-inlaw jokes; for using comparative methodology and analyzing jokes as social facts; and for viewing jokes as thermometers rather than thermostats of a societyhe argued jokes may be able to criticize a society, but they will not lead to societal change.He inspired humor studies stude…
Comedy matters
From comedy targets to comedy-makers
The stand-up comedy landscape has been transformed in recent years with an increased number of disabled comedians performing. Using semi-structured interviews with disabled comedians, this article provides a thematic analysis of the material and ideological motives, intentions and lived experiences of disabled comedians. Two themes are discussed: comedy management and control; and affirming disability through comedy. These themes are characterise…
Performance, Expectation, Interaction, and Intimacy
Live stand-up comedy has become increasingly popular over the last few years. A significant trend related to this heightened interest in stand-up comedy is the diversification of stand-up comedy venues. In addition to small rooms in pubs and small/medium-sized designated comedy clubs, stand-up comedy is now often performed in large arenas with audience capacities of 10,000 plus. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with stand-up comedia…
An Extra Slice of Jo Brand
In this candid interview Jo Brand, one of Britain's most popular and successful comedians, discusses her comedy career. Brand shares experiences and critical reflections on a wide range of comedy, from her first stand-up gig in the 1980s through to presenting the Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice (2014-present). She discusses the inspiration and motivation for her comic material, explains the highs and lows of working in television comedy an…
Screening The Undead
The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, grotesque, countercultural, a goth icon or lonely o…
Screening the Undead
The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, grotesque, countercultural, a goth icon or lonely o…
Controversial Images
Introduction: Controversy and the Crisis of the Image F.Attwood , V.Campbell , I.Q.Hunter & S.Lockyer PART I: CONTROVERSY AND REPRESENTATION Media-Bodies and Photoshop M.Jones Representation and Resemblance in The Case of the Danish Cartoons C.Collins & D.Douglass Imitation and Controversy: Performing (Trans)Sexuality in Post-communist Bulgaria P.Kourtova X-Ray Visions: Photography, Propaganda and Guantanamo Bay B.Bennett PART II: CONSTRUCTING CO…
From toothpick legs to dropping vaginas
This article employs sociocultural analysis to examine Joan Rivers' stand-up comedy performances in order to reveal how she successfully operates in a sphere of artistic expression that has been, and continues to be, male-dominated. The analysis uncovers how Rivers' stand-up comedy performance involves a complex combination of elements and how it fuses features that are regarded as ‘traditionally masculine’, such as aggression, with features freq…
Analysing stand-up comedy
Dynamics of social class contempt in contemporary British television comedy
British television comedy has often ridiculed the complexities and characteristics of social class structures and identities. In recent years poor white socially marginalised groups, now popularly referred to as “chavs”, have become a prevalent comedy target. One of the most popular and controversial television “comedy chavs ” is Little Britain’s fictional teenage single mother, Vicky Pollard. This paper examines the representation of Vicky Polla…
Controversial Images
Controversies are socially significant events which become the object of intense cultural fascination. They often generate extreme and heated public and sometimes political dispute. Attention may b
The Sickest Television Show Ever
This paper explores the controversy caused by Paedogeddon, a one-off special of the Channel 4 series Brass Eye broadcast on July 26, 2001. Although the program sought to satirize inconsistencies in the way the British media treats and sensationalizes child sex offenders and their crimes (Clark, 2001 Clark, C. 2001. Hysteria is a threat to research. The Times Higher Educational Supplement, August 13: 16 [Google Scholar]), it offended many viewers …
Beyond a Joke
Humour in contemporary culture is generally celebrated as a public good, yet at times is felt to produce misunderstanding and even hatred. This collection explores the ethics and aesthetics of humour, in everyday life and in media comedy
You Must Be Joking
Recent work in the sociological critique of humour and comic media has challenged the notion that humour is an absolute good. In this article, we review some of the most interesting work that takes humour seriously and addresses the difficult topic of whether there are ethical limits to humour and media comedy. We outline three main reasons for taking humour seriously and review some of the ways in which humour has been studied sociologically thr…
Heard the One About … Applying Mixed Methods in Humour Research
A wealth of literature exists that calls for an end to the dichotomous relationship between quantitative and qualitative research and closer integration of research methodologies. Many social and behavioural sciences have reaped the benefits of mixing methods. However, few methodological papers examine the specific benefits a mixed‐method approach can have for humour researchers. This paper illustrates that humour studies are an appropriate vehic…
A Two-Pronged Attack
This paper critically assesses the journalistic practices adopted by the British magazine Private Eye. Drawing on interview data with key Private Eye personnel, this article examines the Eye's favoured journalistic technique of combining satirical humour and investigative journalism, and assesses the strengths and limitations of combining these different journalistic practices in British post-war journalism and British democracy. It also examines…
You Must Be Joking
Recent work in the sociological critique of humour and comic media has challenged the notion that humour is an absolute good. In this article, we review some of the most interesting work that takes humour seriously and addresses the difficult topic of whether there are ethical limits to humour and media comedy. We outline three main reasons for taking humour seriously and review some of the ways in which humour has been studied sociologically thr…
Dear Shit-Shovellers
In this article we analyse letters of complaint about instances of comic discourse where the humour is regarded as overstepping the mark and causing offence. We are particularly interested in how this sense of offence is registered and how complainants articulate the offence for which they seek some form of redress. In pursuing this interest, we seek to bring together two distinctive modes of analysis: linguistic discourse analysis and symbolic c…
Dynamics of social class contempt in contemporary British television comedy
British television comedy has often ridiculed the complexities and characteristics of social class structures and identities. In recent years poor white socially marginalised groups, now popularly referred to as “chavs”, have become a prevalent comedy target. One of the most popular and controversial television “comedy chavs ” is Little Britain’s fictional teenage single mother, Vicky Pollard. This paper examines the representation of Vicky Polla…
From comedy targets to comedy-makers
The stand-up comedy landscape has been transformed in recent years with an increased number of disabled comedians performing. Using semi-structured interviews with disabled comedians, this article provides a thematic analysis of the material and ideological motives, intentions and lived experiences of disabled comedians. Two themes are discussed: comedy management and control; and affirming disability through comedy. These themes are characterise…
On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology
Humour and comedy have gained increased significance in academic research in recent years. This article examines the importance of humour and comedy as valuable tools in qualitative social science research methodology. It makes the original contribution of utilizing humour and comedy theory, and critical understandings of both their macro and micro mechanisms and functions, to argue that humour and comedy can accommodate, and indeed, expedite, so…
Rape jokes aren’t funny
The #MeToo campaign has reminded us that male sexual violence, harassment, and abuse towards women is not a new phenomenon. But alongside the visibility of the perpetrators and experiences of myriad women, this recent campaign raises a set of questions as to how this type of violence towards women is normalised and legitimated. Our focus here is on the ways in which male sexual violence towards women is normalised and legitimated through the use …
From toothpick legs to dropping vaginas
This article employs sociocultural analysis to examine Joan Rivers' stand-up comedy performances in order to reveal how she successfully operates in a sphere of artistic expression that has been, and continues to be, male-dominated. The analysis uncovers how Rivers' stand-up comedy performance involves a complex combination of elements and how it fuses features that are regarded as ‘traditionally masculine’, such as aggression, with features freq…
A Two-Pronged Attack
This paper critically assesses the journalistic practices adopted by the British magazine Private Eye. Drawing on interview data with key Private Eye personnel, this article examines the Eye's favoured journalistic technique of combining satirical humour and investigative journalism, and assesses the strengths and limitations of combining these different journalistic practices in British post-war journalism and British democracy. It also examines…
Performing pregnancy
Stand-up comedy has recently become a primary site where representations of pregnancy are increasingly prevalent. Yet little academic work focuses on pregnant stand-up comedians and their performances. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this article examines the cultural work of pregnant stand-up comedy. Thematic analysis of pregnant stand-up comedy by Amy Schumer, Ellie Taylor and Ali Wong identifies three significant features characterising …
Analysing stand-up comedy
The Sickest Television Show Ever
This paper explores the controversy caused by Paedogeddon, a one-off special of the Channel 4 series Brass Eye broadcast on July 26, 2001. Although the program sought to satirize inconsistencies in the way the British media treats and sensationalizes child sex offenders and their crimes (Clark, 2001 Clark, C. 2001. Hysteria is a threat to research. The Times Higher Educational Supplement, August 13: 16 [Google Scholar]), it offended many viewers …
Dynamics of Partisan Journalism
This article explores the influence of partisanship on the framing of a local news agenda. Using a case study approach, it explores how one local newspaper in the East Midlands of England, the Nottingham-based Evening Post, reacted with hostility to leaked Home Office plans housing high-profile paedophiles in its locality (albeit inside the grounds of the local jail). Within weeks, though, the paper's news frame had shifted from hostility toward …
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy
As an autobiographical mode of performance, stand-up comedy is interlinked with debates on identity, inequality and social justice. While much of the existing stand-up comedy and identity literature has prioritised the analysis of a single axis of identity, this study significantly extends existing analysis to examine intersectionality in stand-up comedy. Taking an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical approach derived from humour studies and …
Comedy matters
Performance, Expectation, Interaction, and Intimacy
Live stand-up comedy has become increasingly popular over the last few years. A significant trend related to this heightened interest in stand-up comedy is the diversification of stand-up comedy venues. In addition to small rooms in pubs and small/medium-sized designated comedy clubs, stand-up comedy is now often performed in large arenas with audience capacities of 10,000 plus. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with stand-up comedia…
An Extra Slice of Jo Brand
In this candid interview Jo Brand, one of Britain's most popular and successful comedians, discusses her comedy career. Brand shares experiences and critical reflections on a wide range of comedy, from her first stand-up gig in the 1980s through to presenting the Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice (2014-present). She discusses the inspiration and motivation for her comic material, explains the highs and lows of working in television comedy an…
Dear Shit-Shovellers
In this article we analyse letters of complaint about instances of comic discourse where the humour is regarded as overstepping the mark and causing offence. We are particularly interested in how this sense of offence is registered and how complainants articulate the offence for which they seek some form of redress. In pursuing this interest, we seek to bring together two distinctive modes of analysis: linguistic discourse analysis and symbolic c…
Heard the One About … Applying Mixed Methods in Humour Research
A wealth of literature exists that calls for an end to the dichotomous relationship between quantitative and qualitative research and closer integration of research methodologies. Many social and behavioural sciences have reaped the benefits of mixing methods. However, few methodological papers examine the specific benefits a mixed‐method approach can have for humour researchers. This paper illustrates that humour studies are an appropriate vehic…
A Two-Pronged Attack
This paper critically assesses the journalistic practices adopted by the British magazine Private Eye. Drawing on interview data with key Private Eye personnel, this article examines the Eye's favoured journalistic technique of combining satirical humour and investigative journalism, and assesses the strengths and limitations of combining these different journalistic practices in British post-war journalism and British democracy. It also examines…
Dynamics of Partisan Journalism
This article explores the influence of partisanship on the framing of a local news agenda. Using a case study approach, it explores how one local newspaper in the East Midlands of England, the Nottingham-based Evening Post, reacted with hostility to leaked Home Office plans housing high-profile paedophiles in its locality (albeit inside the grounds of the local jail). Within weeks, though, the paper's news frame had shifted from hostility toward …
You Must Be Joking
Recent work in the sociological critique of humour and comic media has challenged the notion that humour is an absolute good. In this article, we review some of the most interesting work that takes humour seriously and addresses the difficult topic of whether there are ethical limits to humour and media comedy. We outline three main reasons for taking humour seriously and review some of the ways in which humour has been studied sociologically thr…
Controversial Images
Controversies are socially significant events which become the object of intense cultural fascination. They often generate extreme and heated public and sometimes political dispute. Attention may b
The Sickest Television Show Ever
This paper explores the controversy caused by Paedogeddon, a one-off special of the Channel 4 series Brass Eye broadcast on July 26, 2001. Although the program sought to satirize inconsistencies in the way the British media treats and sensationalizes child sex offenders and their crimes (Clark, 2001 Clark, C. 2001. Hysteria is a threat to research. The Times Higher Educational Supplement, August 13: 16 [Google Scholar]), it offended many viewers …
Beyond a Joke
Humour in contemporary culture is generally celebrated as a public good, yet at times is felt to produce misunderstanding and even hatred. This collection explores the ethics and aesthetics of humour, in everyday life and in media comedy
Dynamics of social class contempt in contemporary British television comedy
British television comedy has often ridiculed the complexities and characteristics of social class structures and identities. In recent years poor white socially marginalised groups, now popularly referred to as “chavs”, have become a prevalent comedy target. One of the most popular and controversial television “comedy chavs ” is Little Britain’s fictional teenage single mother, Vicky Pollard. This paper examines the representation of Vicky Polla…
From toothpick legs to dropping vaginas
This article employs sociocultural analysis to examine Joan Rivers' stand-up comedy performances in order to reveal how she successfully operates in a sphere of artistic expression that has been, and continues to be, male-dominated. The analysis uncovers how Rivers' stand-up comedy performance involves a complex combination of elements and how it fuses features that are regarded as ‘traditionally masculine’, such as aggression, with features freq…
Analysing stand-up comedy
Controversial Images
Introduction: Controversy and the Crisis of the Image F.Attwood , V.Campbell , I.Q.Hunter & S.Lockyer PART I: CONTROVERSY AND REPRESENTATION Media-Bodies and Photoshop M.Jones Representation and Resemblance in The Case of the Danish Cartoons C.Collins & D.Douglass Imitation and Controversy: Performing (Trans)Sexuality in Post-communist Bulgaria P.Kourtova X-Ray Visions: Photography, Propaganda and Guantanamo Bay B.Bennett PART II: CONSTRUCTING CO…
Screening the Undead
The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, grotesque, countercultural, a goth icon or lonely o…
Screening The Undead
The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, grotesque, countercultural, a goth icon or lonely o…
From comedy targets to comedy-makers
The stand-up comedy landscape has been transformed in recent years with an increased number of disabled comedians performing. Using semi-structured interviews with disabled comedians, this article provides a thematic analysis of the material and ideological motives, intentions and lived experiences of disabled comedians. Two themes are discussed: comedy management and control; and affirming disability through comedy. These themes are characterise…
Performance, Expectation, Interaction, and Intimacy
Live stand-up comedy has become increasingly popular over the last few years. A significant trend related to this heightened interest in stand-up comedy is the diversification of stand-up comedy venues. In addition to small rooms in pubs and small/medium-sized designated comedy clubs, stand-up comedy is now often performed in large arenas with audience capacities of 10,000 plus. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with stand-up comedia…
An Extra Slice of Jo Brand
In this candid interview Jo Brand, one of Britain's most popular and successful comedians, discusses her comedy career. Brand shares experiences and critical reflections on a wide range of comedy, from her first stand-up gig in the 1980s through to presenting the Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice (2014-present). She discusses the inspiration and motivation for her comic material, explains the highs and lows of working in television comedy an…
Comedy matters
Rape jokes aren’t funny
The #MeToo campaign has reminded us that male sexual violence, harassment, and abuse towards women is not a new phenomenon. But alongside the visibility of the perpetrators and experiences of myriad women, this recent campaign raises a set of questions as to how this type of violence towards women is normalised and legitimated. Our focus here is on the ways in which male sexual violence towards women is normalised and legitimated through the use …
Introduction
International Journal of Humor Research.He is best-known for his work on jokes and their targets: ethnic jokes, political jokes, lawyer jokes, religious jokes, mother-inlaw jokes; for using comparative methodology and analyzing jokes as social facts; and for viewing jokes as thermometers rather than thermostats of a societyhe argued jokes may be able to criticize a society, but they will not lead to societal change.He inspired humor studies stude…
On the importance of the dynamics of humour and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in social science research methodology
Humour and comedy have gained increased significance in academic research in recent years. This article examines the importance of humour and comedy as valuable tools in qualitative social science research methodology. It makes the original contribution of utilizing humour and comedy theory, and critical understandings of both their macro and micro mechanisms and functions, to argue that humour and comedy can accommodate, and indeed, expedite, so…
Alternative Comedy Now and Then
Alternative Comedy Now and Then
Performing pregnancy
Stand-up comedy has recently become a primary site where representations of pregnancy are increasingly prevalent. Yet little academic work focuses on pregnant stand-up comedians and their performances. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this article examines the cultural work of pregnant stand-up comedy. Thematic analysis of pregnant stand-up comedy by Amy Schumer, Ellie Taylor and Ali Wong identifies three significant features characterising …
Intersectionality and the Construction of Humour in Contemporary Stand-up Comedy
As an autobiographical mode of performance, stand-up comedy is interlinked with debates on identity, inequality and social justice. While much of the existing stand-up comedy and identity literature has prioritised the analysis of a single axis of identity, this study significantly extends existing analysis to examine intersectionality in stand-up comedy. Taking an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical approach derived from humour studies and …
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