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Jonathan L. Crane explores horror and irony in his work ‘It was a dark and stormy night.’ What We Do in the Shadows (Taika Waititi… Read More »It was dark and stormy In the Shadows

In their writing ‘The Absurd’ and ‘On Humor’ Thomas Nagel and Sigmund Freud explore ideas of humour, dark comedy and absurdity. In 2012, Metro Trains… Read More »The Smart Humour of Dumb Deaths

In “This is Awkward” Alexandra Plakias explores the feeling and phenomena of awkwardness, studying social behavior. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Crashing is a British comedy limited series… Read More »Crashing into the Awkwardness of Life

In her now iconic essay ‘Notes on Camp’ Susan Sontag explores the sensibility of ‘Camp’ and the ‘affinity and overlap’ between homosexuality and ‘Camp.’ The… Read More »Well If it sounds Camp and looks Camp then it’s probably Camp.

When considering the grotesque within film and Bakhtin and Eco’s ideas on ‘Carnivalesque’ a recent example that came to mind was Emerald Fennells’ Saltburn (Emerald… Read More »Bakhtin, Bathtubs and Bodily Fluids

In his writing Michael North discusses the work of many arts academics including Crafton, Adorno, Bergson and Benjamin. North compares varying scholarship and presents his… Read More »More (Wensleydale) Cheese Gromit and More ‘Machine-Age Comedy’ Michael?

In “Cinema, or the Laughing Gas Party,” Laughter: Notes on a Passion, Parvulescu discusses the history of laughter and cinema, breaking down the physicality of… Read More »Canned Laughter: Shall we keep it or can it ?

Northrop Frye discusses comedy within Greek theatre. In “The Argument of Comedy” they explain how the “Greeks  produced  two  kinds  of  comedy”: Old Comedy and… Read More »Crazy Rich New Comedy

In “Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious’ Sigmund Freud comments on the use of wordplay and the importance of ‘brevity’ within comedy. The 2024… Read More »Spymund Freud

When comparing ‘golden age’ Slapstick comedy and ‘Chaplin shorts’ with modern media I find the greatest similarities in more nontraditional media, not tv or film… Read More »Why Chase when you can eat Pie? – Neamh