Darren J Valenta
Biographic Data
| ID | 6610112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darren J Valenta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darren J |
| FAMILY NAME | Valenta |
| SIGNATURE | VALENTA D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Judy C. Pearson Department of Communication Studies, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Whole Durn Human Comedy
Significant art is provocative. It drives the spectator to thought or action otherwise deemed too costly. This foundational tension between creator and consumer inevitably leads to dueling interpretations of challenging artistic artifacts. The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, epitomize the artist as provocateur. They use their work to interrogate the humanity of their characters and play at the intersections of drama, comedy, and violence. In short…
Laughing at pink ribbon culture
In this essay, I conduct an ideological performance critique of Tig Notaro’s now-famous 2012 stand-up comedy performance, Live, in which she discloses her recent breast cancer diagnosis. Doing so places her firmly within the realm of dominant pink ribbon culture, which valorizes the she-ro, an attractive, all-conquering superhero. I argue that Notaro utilizes the literary and rhetorical trope bathos to subvert the she-ro ideal. Her subversion dem…
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Laughing at pink ribbon culture
In this essay, I conduct an ideological performance critique of Tig Notaro’s now-famous 2012 stand-up comedy performance, Live, in which she discloses her recent breast cancer diagnosis. Doing so places her firmly within the realm of dominant pink ribbon culture, which valorizes the she-ro, an attractive, all-conquering superhero. I argue that Notaro utilizes the literary and rhetorical trope bathos to subvert the she-ro ideal. Her subversion dem…
The Whole Durn Human Comedy
Significant art is provocative. It drives the spectator to thought or action otherwise deemed too costly. This foundational tension between creator and consumer inevitably leads to dueling interpretations of challenging artistic artifacts. The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, epitomize the artist as provocateur. They use their work to interrogate the humanity of their characters and play at the intersections of drama, comedy, and violence. In short…
Art (2 works) · Comedy (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Humor Studies and Applications (1 work) · Ideal (ethics (1 work) · Ideology (1 work) · Law (1 work)