"Within popular culture studies, one finds discussions about quantitative sociology, Marxism, psychoanalysis, myth criticism, feminism, and semiotics, but hardly a word on the usefulness of phenomenology, the branch of philosophy concerned with human experience. In spite of this omission, there is a close relationship between the aims of phenomenology and the aims of popular culture studies, for both movements have attempted to redirect ..."
Finding the Buddha A dark story of genius, friendship, and stand-up comedy von EddieTafoya Paperback, 332 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2015 von Pen-L Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-942428-41-1, ISBN: 1-942428-41-3
"A mysterious man with a Midas touch delights the world but still seeks release from his own personal nightmare. Mark Wladika can do just about anything. As a high school sophomore, he demonstrates an uncanny grasp of quantum physics. As a young Marine, he is a master of hand-to-hand combat, capable of taking out men twice his size with a single blow. He is a cosmologist, a philosopher, an observer of the human condition, and — unbeknown ..."
The Legacy of the Wisecrack Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form von EddieTafoya Paperback, 240 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Brown Walker Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59942-495-8, ISBN: 1-59942-495-9
"Despite the claim of many a Borscht Belt comic that he is a practitioner of "the world's second-oldest professsion," stand-up comedy is a young and distinctly American literary form. It was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century when, enabled by unprecedented prosperity and the right to free expression, that monologists began appearing in American vaudeville halls. Yet even though it has since become an entertainment indus ..."
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Greenwood Icons Icons of African American Comedy von Eddie M. Tafoya 283 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-0-313-38085-3, ISBN: 0-313-38085-6