Although television is a dominant form of screen culture, the burgeoning proliferation of streaming services in the past decade has further altered the face of comedy. Streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime…
According to Noel Carroll, the screen monster has power in its ability to induce fear, through cognition this particular object labelled as fearful meets the criteria for danger potential or harmfulness [1]. To create…
Scary Movie (Keenen Ivory Wayans, 2000) is inspired by 90’s teen slasher films, heavily drawing upon ‘Scream’ and ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ these texts are defined by Harding as “prototexts”[1], the sources of…
The spirit of Paracinema is not mutually exclusive to something outside of popular cinema, it can exist within franchises amongst the discourse of fandoms as texts are ranked next to their peers inside of their textual…
The comedy of remarriage as a Shakespearean discovery has been reenacted within various structures of films in the 1930’s at the advent of sound or “talkies” and seen again with various features added and subtracted to…
“The joke scenario according to Freud involves three people: the joke teller, the person to whom the joke is told, and the object, or butt, of the joke. The comic, on the other hand, need only involve the person who…
Henri Bergson: Sometimes I Will Be Unable To Sleep Until I Take The Form Of A Cabinet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMmsQGnkd9U The immediate scene which came to mind when Bergson discusses the ideas of…
Fleabag Season 1, Episode 2 – Ninja Surprise The structure of the mischief gag proposed by Tom Gunning commencing with the preparatory action of the rascal; (Fleabags garb of the knife-wielding ninja surprise)…