Evaluating Stand-Up Specials |
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| Authors: | FRANK BOARDMAN |
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| Affiliation: | Philosophy Department, Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01602 |
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| Abstract: | Stand-up specials are not identical to the sets they contain. Nor are they of a kind with either fiction films or documentaries. I argue here that the properties of specials that make them ontologically distinct also demand that we treat them as distinct for the purpose of their evaluation. I then offer some evaluative criteria for specials as well as suggestions for becoming better critics of specials. |
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