Critchley stated that “in ethnic humour, the ethos of a place is expressed by laughing at people who are not like us, and usually believed… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – Critchley, Foreign Humour and In Bruges
As an acknowledged bias of mine, I have never found myself too attached to the horror genre in itself when comparing it to other film… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – Miller, Horror Comedy, and Vampire’s Kiss
Whilst I certainly agree that we are, as the readings of this week seem too be claiming, in a certain ‘age of awkwardness’, as argued… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – Awkwardness, Problems with Batuman and The Eric Andre Show
Babuscio, in his paper Camp and the Gay Sensibility, highlights the notion that camp comedy asserts a certain gay sensibility in its development of ironical humour.… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – Babuscio, Camp Irony, and La Cage aux Folles
(p.5) It was perhaps in this passage of Umberto Eco’s essay on Frames of comic freedom in which I found most intrigue this week. Eco makes… Read More »Umberto Eco, Carnivalism and Genre
Mary Douglass, in her reflections over the nature of jokes, and in consideration of Bergson and Freud’s respective accounts, claims that jokes offer some kind… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – Douglass, Social Structures and the Joker
Bergman, in his essay on laughter, makes a particularly interesting claim that laughter could be seen as “a sort of social gesture” in supposed response… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – North, Bergmann and Societal Correction
This week, I found Gunning’s article, “Crazy Machines in the Garden of Forking Paths”, to be particularly inciteful over the initial formations of film comedy –… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – Early Film Comedy and Jackie Chan