ubiór-i-moda: Clown

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A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms. The art of performing as a clown is known as clowning or buffoonery, and the term "clown" may be used synonymously with predecessors like jester, joker, buffoon, fool, or harlequin. Clowns have a diverse tradition with significant variations in costume and performance worldwide. The most recognizable clowns are circus clowns from Western culture, who are characterized by colorful wigs, red noses, and oversized shoes. Clowns have also played roles in theater and folklore, like the court jesters of the Middle Ages and the jesters…

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Humor, Vernacularization, and Intermedial Laughter in Maoist Pingtan. This chapter explores how humor in Maoist pingtan tales facilitated the vernacularization of the tastes and practices of popular culture, and revamped pingtan into an ideal media of socialist new comedy. Adaptations of pingtan tales through film, folk performances, and radio broadcasted songs facilitated the vernacularization of new notions of the self and the nation, generated intermedial laughter in various taste cultures and media territories, and instigated the individuals’ negotiation and interaction with multivalent socio-political ideals. Guo argues that vernacularization of Maoist pingtan , which allowed multiple…

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Unruly Women and Dangerous Laughter: Sexuality, Violence and Agency in Urban Aboriginal Women's Humor Performances

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The sad clown paradox is the contradictory association, in performers, between comedy and mental disorders such as depression and anxiety. For those affected, early life is characterised by feelings of deprivation and isolation, where comedy evolves as a release for tension, removing feelings of suppressed physical rage through a verbal outlet. A series of psychological experiments first published in 1981 by the psychologist Seymour Fisher indicated certain behavioural traits exclusive to comedians and not matched in regular actors. Later work conducted by Kaufman and Kozbelt re-interpreted these results, drawing the understanding that whilst comedy serves as a coping mechanism to hide trau…