Bakhtin and Carnival: Culture as Counter-Culture

Lachmann, Renate; Eshelman, Raoul; Davis, Marc

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“…Neo-liberalism carries with it an implication that citizens must regulate their emotions, attitudes, and bodies in order to conform to the requirements of Downloaded by [Queensland University of Technology] at 16:41 20 November 2014 capital. Seen in this light, the idea that intoxication might bring a temporary sense of relief resonates with the countercultural tone of Bakhtinian carnival (Lachmann et al, 1988-9).…”

Section: Young People and The Contemporary 'Culture Of Intoxication'mentioning

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“…Yet they were invariably greeted with warm, affirmative, and collegiate laughter which, we felt, had an element of Bakhtin's ( , 2009 folk and carnival humour which stands in opposition to the official conventions and mores of the day. The laughter seemed essentially parodic of official discourses of work, self-control, and sensible conduct, reflecting the often self-parodic elements in the stories themselves and the countercultural tone of Bakhtinian carnival (Lachmann, Eshelman, & Davis, 1988-9).…”

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Young adults and ‘binge’ drinking: A Bakhtinian analysis

Hackley

Bengry‐Howell

Griffin

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Journal of Marketing Management

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In this paper, we use Bakhtin's theory of carnival in a literary analysis of young people's accounts of the role of alcohol in their social lives. Bakhtinian themes in the focus-group transcripts included the dialogic character of drinking stories, the focus on parodic grotesquery, ribald and satiric laughter, and the temporary subversion and reversal of social norms and roles in a world turned 'inside out'. We suggest that our analysis of the UK's drinking 'culture' hints at a previously untheorised complexity and force, and points to a deep contradiction between young people's lived experience of alcohol and government policy discourses based on appeals to individual moral responsibility. We conclude that the carnivalesque resonance of drinking is such that the UK's alcohol problem will continue to worsen until the availability and cultural presence of alcohol is subject to stricter controls.

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Section: Young People and The Contemporary 'Culture Of Intoxication'mentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Young adults and ‘binge’ drinking: A Bakhtinian analysis

Hackley

Bengry‐Howell

Griffin

et al. 2013

Journal of Marketing Management

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“…Liberation is achieved through play and the transgression of the 'proper' order and values: carnival is 'free-time' and 'free-space' (Lachmann et al, 1988). Heteroglossia, as discussed in the previous section, is an essential resource in this context: pre-existing voices and forms of speech are combined playfully, creating new voices and meanings which reflect a carnivalesque mood.…”

Section: Digital Carnivals: Laughter the Grotesque And The Theatre Omentioning

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The Language of Social Media

Seargeant¹,

Tagg²

2014

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“…They engender a collective, devoid of the usual hierarchical trappings of society. 37 This was by no means a fleeting performance but a genuine change in the organisation of social life. Carnival 'is not a spectacle seen by the people, they live in it, and everyone participates because its very idea embraces all the people'.…”

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Satire and Geopolitics: Vulgarity, Ambiguity and the Body Grotesque inSouth Park

Thorogood

2016

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Humour and laughter have become the subject of recent geopolitical scrutiny. Scholars have explored the affirmative and liberatory possibilities of humour, and the affective bodily dimensions of laughter as tools for transformative action in critical geopolitics. Humour that is vulgar and politically ambiguous is yet to be explored as a potent geopolitical avenue of enquiry. Studies of satire have suggested that rather than contesting entrenched geopolitical beliefs, satirical shows can serve to further divide audiences both amenable and antagonistic to the satire in question. I argue that this should not involve a wholesale rejection of satirical shows, as humour that uses irony, subversion, and other discursive techniques is just one way satirical media becomes an effective commentator on political issues. I examine the show South Park and argue its satire combines bodily and scatological humour with more traditional satirical techniques to produce a comedy that ridicules contemporary issues by reducing complex politics to the most basic and crass condition possible. This is defined in a Bakhtinian sense of the body grotesque, a social inversion through reference to the common bodily functions of all human beings.

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Bakhtin and Carnival: Culture as Counter-Culture

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Young adults and ‘binge’ drinking: A Bakhtinian analysis

Young adults and ‘binge’ drinking: A Bakhtinian analysis

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