Ella Frazier

Although Creep (2014) is billed as a horror movie, many of its fans would sooner describe it as an example of cringe comedy with a… Read More »I’m a Creep, I’m a weirdo…

Jonathan L. Crane begins his essay with a recounting of a pivotal scene in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) where a scientist, faced with something… Read More »Is this part of the award?

*Content warning: mentions of suicide   Freud believes that melancholy thinkers are able to achieve a level of self-awareness that can result in humor, or… Read More »Dark Humor in Little Miss Sunshine

According to Susan Sontag: “In naïve, or pure, Camp, the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails. Of course, not all seriousness that fails… Read More »Camp: Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers

Both Bakhtin and Eco’s notions of carnival center around the subversion of rules, and of what is accepted. Because religion creates rules, and much of… Read More »Suburban, Blasphemous Grotesque in Santa Clarita Diet

Julian Hanich lists ten types of laughter, and the one I found most compelling to write about in this blog post is “conversion laughter: laughing… Read More »Hanich’s “conversion laughter” and Emilia Pérez

Stanley Cavell, who named the comedy of remarriage genre, separates it from Frye’s Old and New Comedy by the fact that it focuses on getting… Read More »The Parent Trap – Cavell and Frye

  In “Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious”, Freud writes about how humor can be derived from wordplay and “nonsensical words”. The example used… Read More »I’ll leave when I’m good and ready

Many children’s animated films derive their comedy from anthropomorphizing objects, machines, or animals. From robots to toys to airplanes, these films ascribe human traits to… Read More »(Car)toon Comedy of Machines

Something that came to mind when reading about early cinematic gags and pie-and-chase is the wildly popular YouTube series of the early 2000s and 2010s,… Read More »Greatest Freakout Ever (Modern YouTube Gags/Mischief) (Ella F)