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This Pivot explores the cultural economy of comedy in the UK, looking specifically at the links between industry practices and structures and who produces comedy in the UK. The research is based on interviews with comedians in the East Midlands; significantly, this demographic has been historically under-researched in studies of precarity, where the East Midlands is typically overlooked in discussions of arts funding and access in favour of a more simplistic north/south divide narrative. Similarly, whilst there has been increased discussion of the precarity of the creative and cultural industries, as well as media articles on the difficulty of breaking into comedy as a member of a marginalised group, there has been relatively little academic research to support this. While Friedman’s work in particular has been helpful for understanding the link between comedy producers, class and taste making, there has been less attention paid to the sociologies of work within comedy. This book fills these gaps in research by exploring the experiences of comedians in the East Midlands, contributing to the rich body of scholarship on inequality in the cultural industries and promoting a better understanding of the impact of structural inequalities and precarity on access to the cultural industries. .

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Theatrical science --- History of civilization --- etnologie --- toneeltechniek --- theater --- cultuur --- Great Britain --- Comedy. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Comedy Studies. --- British Culture. --- Great Britain.

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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws – witches and poisoners – offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie’s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.

Philosophy --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Fiction --- Literature --- History of civilization --- cultuur --- filosofie --- literatuur --- fantasie (verbeelding) --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction. --- Feminism and literature. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- Feminist Literary Theory. --- British Culture. --- 20th century. --- Philosophy. --- Great Britain.