Australian Stage Comedians 1915-1930: Configuring a Comic National Identity

澳大利亚舞台喜剧演员 1915-1930：构建喜剧民族身份

• 批准号: DP0555961
• 负责人: Em/Prof Richard Fotheringham
• 金额: $ 6.81万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0555961
• 关键词: Australian; Stage; Comedians; 1915; 1930

This project aims to make a major contribution to Australian cultural history by examining the origins of what has often been described as the distinctive Australian sense of humour. While elements of this national characteristic emerged in colonial times, including an emphasis on stoicism, self-deprecation and the contradictions of existence (e.g. in Steele Rudd's and Henry Lawson's stories), this project will increase community awareness of how stage comedians during and after the First World War focused these tendencies into a distinctive emphasis on the comedy of everyday experience, and on maintaining a tough-minded optimism in adversity.

该项目旨在通过考察澳大利亚独特幽默感的起源，为澳大利亚文化史做出重大贡献。 虽然这种民族特征的元素出现在殖民时代，包括强调斯多葛主义、自嘲和生存的矛盾(例如在斯蒂尔·陆克文和亨利·劳森的故事中)，但这个项目将增加社区意识，让社区意识到第一次世界大战期间和之后的舞台喜剧演员如何将这些倾向集中在对日常经验的喜剧的独特强调上，以及在逆境中保持坚韧的乐观态度。