Berland and Ngai’s idea that “Comedy helps us test or figure out what it means to say “us.”” indicates how comedy helps strengthen our personal… Read More »Raya Milushev – ‘Derry Girls’ and community forged through humour
Noël Carroll’s comments that “horror and humor seem like opposite mental states” and that it is “perplexing from a theoretical point of view” that any… Read More »Raya Milushev – ‘Get Out’ and comic relief
Adam Kotsko highlights that “We watch awkward situations in everyday life as though we’re gaping at a car accident” and that “when we all come… Read More »Raya Milushev – viral clips and second-hand embarrassment
Susan Sontag’s notion that “many of the objects prized by Camp taste are old-fashioned” because “the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment… Read More »Raya Milushev – The timelessness of Camp
In his introduction to Rabelais and His World, Mikhail Bakhtin argues that “The essential principle of grotesque realism is degradation, that is, the lowering of… Read More »Raya Milushev – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and the grotesque
Mary Douglas’ assertion that “the joke form rarely lies in the utterance alone, but that it can be identified in the total social situation” made… Read More »Raya Milushev – Stand-up comedy as “inside” joke
Henri Bergson’s assertions that “You would hardly appreciate the comic if you felt yourself isolated from others” and that “However spontaneous it seems, laughter always… Read More »Raya Milushev – Bergson and ‘Friends’
I was particularly interested in Tom Gunning’s ideas about mischief gags in ‘Crazy Machines in the Garden of Forking Paths’, and I would like to… Read More »Raya Milushev – Tom Gunning and Tom and Jerry