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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. .

Comedians --- Stand-up comedy --- Comedy. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Comedy Studies. --- British Culture. --- Great Britain.

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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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“A welcome and necessary addition to the histories of print in Britain... What a joy to have such a volume finally.” - Ian Gordon, author of Comic Strips and Consumer Culture “Told with a scholar’s meticulousness and a journalist’s nose for hidden connections… Twycross offers a new framework, one that will become indispensable as readers discover the riches of newspaper comics in the exploding online archives of our new century.” - Joe Sutliff Sanders, Associate Professor, University of Cambridge, UK “Rigorously researched and engagingly written, it’s a fascinating read.” - Julia Round, Associate Professor, Bournemouth University, UK This book explores the history and development of the British daily newspaper strip. It considers such strips within their political, commercial and societal contexts and fills in a crucial section of publishing history that has been largely overlooked by both comics and newspaper studies to date. Beginning with an examination of the role of the image within British publishing in the final decades of the nineteenth century, the book moves on to explore the arrival and development of the first daily strips. It considers the links that bound these strips to surrounding cultural forms, their relationship to their host newspapers, and their position within the wider structures of the emerging popular press. Subsequent chapters cover a range of topics including the impact of the world wars, the anti-comics campaigns of the 1940s and 50s, and how changes to British publishing and wider society shaped the newspaper strips of the final decades of the twentieth century. Culminating with a discussion of the way in which strips became established within the broadsheet press from the 1960s, the book builds to provide a detailed overview of the twentieth century development of this most neglected cultural form. Adam Twycross is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, UK and has taught extensively in the fields of animation, comics studies, VFX and computer games. His research focuses on newspaper strips, comics for non-juvenile audiences and the lost histories of British comics creators. British Newspaper Strips is his first book.

British newspapers --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Journaux britanniques --- Journaux --- Newspapers --- comic strips. --- History. --- Histoire. --- Cahiers, chroniques, etc --- Bandes dessinées. --- Sections, columns, etc --- Comics. --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Popular Culture. --- Culture --- Comics Studies. --- British Culture. --- Visual Culture. --- Influence on mass media. --- Great Britain. --- Study and teaching. --- Popular culture.