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使用喜剧来产生社会变革，这一目标部分是通过这项研究的背景实现的-莱斯特喜剧节。在2023年庆祝其成立30周年，LCF开始作为DMU学生项目于1994年。由其创始董事Geoff Rowe BEM领导，BDC的LCF是英国最大的专门喜剧节。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讲习班的合作来培养新兴人才。这个博士学位的一个目的是理论化的“难以形容的”障碍，以平等的喜剧，从而告知如何BDC/LCF目标干预。作为DMU的战略合作伙伴，BDC的LCF节为BA和MA学生的实习和研究项目提供了一个支持性的研究环境。Geoff Rowe是DMU的荣誉教授，每年都在该大学讲课。2014年，罗介绍了“我说喜剧对话”，采访了重要的喜剧演员关于喜剧的历史和实践，为学生和研究人员提供独特的见解。这个CDA是DMU和LFC之间近三十年合作的高潮。从2008年至2014年，为笑而玩研讨会提供了一个学术重点喜剧的社会影响，确定其能力，代表不同的观点和转变叙事的赋权来源。年度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。喜剧行业所有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，虚拟小组聚焦于东米德兰兹郡的行业和喜剧经济，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。