The Myth of Inclusivity: exploring barriers to representation in stand-up comedy through Leicester Comedy Festival's archive (1994-)

包容性的神话：通过莱斯特喜剧节的档案探索单口喜剧表演的障碍（1994-）

• 批准号: 2761306
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: De Montfort University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2761306
• 关键词: Myth; Inclusivity; exploring; barriers; representation

Leicester-based registered charity Big Difference Company uses comedy to produce social change, an aim partly achieved through the context for this research - Leicester Comedy Festival. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2023, LCF started as a DMU student project in 1994. Led by its founding director, Geoff Rowe BEM, BDC's LCF is the UK's largest dedicated comedy festival. BDC's charitable objectives mean it nurtures emerging talent through collaborations with DMULocal, the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year award, and comedy training workshops. One aim of this PhD is to theorise the 'unspeakable' barriers to equality in comedy so informing how BDC/LCF target interventions. A DMU strategic partner, BDC's LCF festival provides a supportive research environment for BA and MA student placements and research projects. Geoff Rowe is a DMU honorand and lectures annually at the university. In 2014 Rowe introduced the 'I say Comedy Conversations', interviews with significant comedians regarding comedy's history and practices, providing unique insights for students and researchers. This CDA is the culmination of nearly three decades of collaboration between DMU and LFC. From 2008-2014, the Playing for Laughs symposia provided an academic focus on comedy's social impacts, identifying its ability to represent different perspectives and transform narratives as sources of empowerment. The annual Beyond a Joke seminar programme (2015 - present) continues this push to theorise comedic practice as cultural intervention and critique and foster dialogue between industry professionals, academics and comics. These conversations between all areas of the comedy industry are vital in exploring barriers to participation and in widening understanding of LCF as a microcosm of the comedy industry. In 2021 virtual panels focused on the industry and the comedy economy of the East Midlands, paving the way for this collaboration with its focus on the conditions of comedy production and their impacts on comedy practices.

总部位于莱斯特的注册慈善机构 Big Difference Company 利用喜剧来产生社会变革，这一目标部分通过这项研究的背景——莱斯特喜剧节来实现。 LCF 于 1994 年作为 DMU 学生项目启动，于 2023 年庆祝其成立 30 周年。在其创始董事 Geoff Rowe BEM 的领导下，BDC 的 LCF 是英国最大的专业喜剧节。 BDC 的慈善目标意味着它通过与 DMULocal、莱斯特水星年度喜剧演员奖和喜剧培训研讨会的合作来培养新兴人才。该博士学位的目标之一是理论化喜剧中“难以言喻”的平等障碍，从而告知 BDC/LCF 如何进行针对性干预。作为 DMU 的战略合作伙伴，BDC 的 LCF 节为学士和硕士学生的实习和研究项目提供了支持性的研究环境。 Geoff Rowe 是 DMU 荣誉教授，每年都会在该大学讲学。 2014 年，罗推出了“我说喜剧对话”，采访重要的喜剧演员，了解喜剧的历史和实践，为学生和研究人员提供独特的见解。该 CDA 是 DMU 和 LFC 之间近三十年合作的结晶。从 2008 年到 2014 年，“为笑而玩”研讨会在学术上关注喜剧的社会影响，确定喜剧代表不同观点和转变叙事作为赋权来源的能力。一年一度的“超越笑话”研讨会计划（2015 年至今）继续推动将喜剧实践理论化为文化干预和批评，并促进行业专业人士、学者和漫画之间的对话。喜剧行业各个领域之间的这些对话对于探索参与障碍和扩大对 LCF 作为喜剧行业缩影的理解至关重要。 2021 年，虚拟小组讨论的重点是东米德兰兹郡的工业和喜剧经济，为此次合作铺平了道路，重点关注喜剧制作的条件及其对喜剧实践的影响。