Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema explores the moment in audience reception where screams and laughter collide. Essays examinine the aesthetics and mechanics of the sLaughter moment, the impact of its frission of humor and horror on the viewer, and sLaughter's implications for the human condition more generally.
Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema explores the moment in audience reception where screams and laughter collide. Essays examinine the aesthetics and mechanics of the sLaughter moment, the impact of its frission of humor and horror on the viewer, and sLaughter's implications for the human condition more generally.
Edited by John A. Dowell and Cynthia J. Miller - Foreword by Molly Merryman - Contributions by Ben Betka; Thomas Britt; Iain J.W. Ellis; Moritz Fink; Ann Larabee; David Misch; William Quiterio; Don Tresca; Ben Urish; Colin Yeo; Cynthia J. Miller and John
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Foreword: From "Stairway to Heaven" to "I Hate Mondays": Is Understanding sLaughter Essential? Molly Merryman Introduction: The Hilarity of Terror: Toward an Understanding of sLaughter John A. Dowell, with Cynthia J. Miller Part I: The Aesthetics and Mechanics of sLaughter, or Welcome to the Funhouse of Carnography-Please Watch Your Head 1. Troma-tized by Punk Iain J.W. Ellis 2. "Must I Remind You of a Little Movie Called Deliverance?": sLaughter and the Postmodern Pastiche Don Tresca 3. Phallic Noses, Blood-Filled Balloons, Exploding Popcorn, and Laughing-Gas-Squirting Flowers: Reading Images of the Evil Clown Moritz Fink 4. The Mechanical sLaughterhouse: Horror, Humor, and Repetition in American Psycho and Fight Club Colin Yeo Part II: Bodies in the sLaughterhouse, or You Might Feel a Little Pinch 5. "Michael Eat Your Meat": Trauma, Satire, and Nostalgia in Bob Balaban's Parents William Quiterio 6. Ha!/Aaah!: The Painful Relationship between Humor and Horror David Misch 7. Igniting the Fuse of Destructive History: Nation and Ablation in the sLaughterhouse Thomas Britt 8. sLaughter as Existential Epiphany Ben Urish Part III: Beyond Mere War, or So Long and Thanks for All the Jokes! 9. Surfing Fascists and the Masses: (Non-)Evolving Images of the Cinenazi Ben Betka 10. In the UnDead of Winter: Humor and the Horrific in Dead Snow Cynthia J. Miller 11. Too Soon?: Laughing at Disaster on the Cinematic Titanic Ann Larabee About the Editors Notes on the Contributors
Foreword: From "Stairway to Heaven" to "I Hate Mondays": Is Understanding sLaughter Essential? Molly Merryman Introduction: The Hilarity of Terror: Toward an Understanding of sLaughter John A. Dowell, with Cynthia J. Miller Part I: The Aesthetics and Mechanics of sLaughter, or Welcome to the Funhouse of Carnography-Please Watch Your Head 1. Troma-tized by Punk Iain J.W. Ellis 2. "Must I Remind You of a Little Movie Called Deliverance?": sLaughter and the Postmodern Pastiche Don Tresca 3. Phallic Noses, Blood-Filled Balloons, Exploding Popcorn, and Laughing-Gas-Squirting Flowers: Reading Images of the Evil Clown Moritz Fink 4. The Mechanical sLaughterhouse: Horror, Humor, and Repetition in American Psycho and Fight Club Colin Yeo Part II: Bodies in the sLaughterhouse, or You Might Feel a Little Pinch 5. "Michael Eat Your Meat": Trauma, Satire, and Nostalgia in Bob Balaban's Parents William Quiterio 6. Ha!/Aaah!: The Painful Relationship between Humor and Horror David Misch 7. Igniting the Fuse of Destructive History: Nation and Ablation in the sLaughterhouse Thomas Britt 8. sLaughter as Existential Epiphany Ben Urish Part III: Beyond Mere War, or So Long and Thanks for All the Jokes! 9. Surfing Fascists and the Masses: (Non-)Evolving Images of the Cinenazi Ben Betka 10. In the UnDead of Winter: Humor and the Horrific in Dead Snow Cynthia J. Miller 11. Too Soon?: Laughing at Disaster on the Cinematic Titanic Ann Larabee About the Editors Notes on the Contributors
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