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Explorations into Stand-Up Comedy Through the Multimedia Essay: "Stand Up Comedy and the Essay, AKA Louis C.K. Meet Michel De Montaigne" and "You're In The Sun"

Reinhart, Taylor W
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400456829

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2014, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, English.
While the video essay has an extensive history in international and American cinema, the medium still is being chronicled and recognized as a prominent form by practitioners of the traditional essay. Filmmakers like Ross McElwee, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnes Varda, and Derek Jarmon have stretched and blended documentary, avant-garde filmmaking, and personal narrative in four distinct and accomplished careers. Other directors, such as Terrence Malick, have also used the video medium to tell fictional stories focused more on the exploratory nonlinear narrative than the traditional linear narrative. Stand-up comedy, a medium of communication also well suited for exploring personal narrative, also has the qualities of an essay, though little attention has been given to its potential to explore personal identity. I will create a video essay about my experiences with stand-up, which will investigate its artistic community, the tradition of the stage as a form of therapy, and the ways in which comedians craft their personal identity both on and off stage. I will combine this creative work with a textual study of the essayistic personal identity in film and stand-up comedy, highlighting their value as a narrative practice.
Eric LeMay (Advisor)
50 p.
American Literature; Film Studies; Literature; Modern Literature; Motion Pictures
Video Essay; English; Creative Writing; Essay; Stand-up; Comedy;

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  • Reinhart, T. W. (2014). Explorations into Stand-Up Comedy Through the Multimedia Essay: "Stand Up Comedy and the Essay, AKA Louis C.K. Meet Michel De Montaigne" and "You're In The Sun" [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400456829

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Reinhart, Taylor. Explorations into Stand-Up Comedy Through the Multimedia Essay: "Stand Up Comedy and the Essay, AKA Louis C.K. Meet Michel De Montaigne" and "You're In The Sun" . 2014. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400456829.

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  • Reinhart, Taylor. "Explorations into Stand-Up Comedy Through the Multimedia Essay: "Stand Up Comedy and the Essay, AKA Louis C.K. Meet Michel De Montaigne" and "You're In The Sun" ." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400456829

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