Book review: Balkin, Sarah and Marc Mierowsky (2024). Comedy and Controversy: Scripting Public Speech. Cambridge University Press.

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Book review

References

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Krefting, R. (2014). All joking aside: American humour and its discontents. Johns Hopkins. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/10915/all-joking-aside.

Rancière, J. (2011). The emancipated spectator. Verso.

Sedgman, K. (2017). Audience experience in an anti-expert age: A survey of theatre audience research. Theatre Research International, 42, 307–322. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883317000608.