Donald Glover’s Atlanta humorously investigates race relations with varying levels of awkwardness, subtlety, and surrealism. It is a noteworthy example of the ambiguity and relativity… Read More »Isabel Burney — Atlanta and the Ambiguity of Racial Humor
I have never seen Rubber (2010) and truthfully do not know that I ever will, but, regardless, the premise is interesting in its playfulness towards… Read More »Isabel Burney — Rubber: Tired of Horror? Laugh at a Tire
Both the Kotsko and Batuman readings mention Arrested Development as an example of awkwardness, but I would like to discuss it through the lens of… Read More »Isabel Burney — Tobias Fünke as the Zany
Camp as an attitude celebrating style over substance is a concept director Baz Luhrmann seems to live and die by in his films. Romeo +… Read More »Isabel Burney – Baz Luhrmann’s Camp Cinema
While thinking about Daisies and the carnivalesque, I was reminded of an article I read analyzing Roseanne Barr as an “unruly woman” (Rowe 203). Having… Read More »Isabel Burney – Roseanne & the Two Maries as Unruly Women
And on that farm he had a shaggy dog! Mary Douglas’ example of the “shaggy dog story” reminded me of the unassumingly masterful (in my… Read More »Isabel Burney — Norm Macdonald had a farm
Upon first reading Bergson’s assertion that the comic’s “appeal is to intelligence, pure and simple,” I instinctively disagreed with the outright and rather sweeping dismissal… Read More »Isabel Burney – The Mechanization of Grief in Manchester by the Sea’s Humor
Throughout this week’s reading, I could not help but be reminded of comedian Nathan Fielder, particularly as his work pertains to the key tensions… Read More »Isabel Burney Blog Post 1: The Rascal’s Reality