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Comedy matters: On the impact of comedy
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Sharon Lockyer
Sharon Lockyer is the Founding Director of the Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) and a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications in the Department of Social Sciences, Media and Communications at Brunel University London. Her research interests include critical comedy studies, identity politics and comic media representations and the sociology of popular culture.
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April 26, 2016
Published Online: 2016-4-26
Published in Print: 2016-5-1
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