Funny Stuff: How Comedy Shaped American History with Ryan Lintelman
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Join the Rhode Island Historical Society on Wednesday, November 4th, at 6pm for a presentation on the new book Funny Stuff: How Comedy Shaped American History by Ryan Lintelman, entertainment curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
The National Comedy Center and Smithsonian Institution hold unparalleled collections of artifacts that illustrate the vitality and importance of comedy in American life, from vaudeville, silent films, and TV sitcoms to stand-up, sketch, and cartoons. In the new book, Funny Stuff: How Comedy Shaped American History, these collections are brought together in vibrant photographs and illuminating essays that tell the story of how comedy shaped American history. Hear from Ryan Lintelman, entertainment curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, as he reveals the stories of rarely exhibited artifacts and recounts the lives of famous, infamous, and unknown comics and their influence on American culture.
This talk is part of our year-long commemoration of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding and Rhode Island’s part in shaping our nation’s history and culture from 1776 to 1976.
Ryan Lintelman is a public historian and historian of American entertainment with a special interest in the history of film, television, and comedy. In his scholarship, Lintelman explores how people living in the United States have interacted with popular entertainment, and how popular culture shapes and reflects historical debates and developments. By probing the production, exhibition, reception, and cultural conversations about entertainment performance and products, Lintelman strives to engage a broad public in discussing Americans’ understandings of themselves and their place in the world throughout the nation’s history.
The National Comedy Center and Smithsonian Institution hold unparalleled collections of artifacts that illustrate the vitality and importance of comedy in American life, from vaudeville, silent films, and TV sitcoms to stand-up, sketch, and cartoons. In the new book, Funny Stuff: How Comedy Shaped American History, these collections are brought together in vibrant photographs and illuminating essays that tell the story of how comedy shaped American history. Hear from Ryan Lintelman, entertainment curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, as he reveals the stories of rarely exhibited artifacts and recounts the lives of famous, infamous, and unknown comics and their influence on American culture.
This talk is part of our year-long commemoration of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding and Rhode Island’s part in shaping our nation’s history and culture from 1776 to 1976.
Ryan Lintelman is a public historian and historian of American entertainment with a special interest in the history of film, television, and comedy. In his scholarship, Lintelman explores how people living in the United States have interacted with popular entertainment, and how popular culture shapes and reflects historical debates and developments. By probing the production, exhibition, reception, and cultural conversations about entertainment performance and products, Lintelman strives to engage a broad public in discussing Americans’ understandings of themselves and their place in the world throughout the nation’s history.
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Nelson W. Aldrich House, 110 Benevolent St,Providence,RI,United States
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