Gunning’s reading on gags touched upon how the operational aesthetic reflected a fascination with the way things worked, particularly innovative or unbelievable technologies, and that… Read More »The Internet Gag – The IT Crowd
Donald Crafton’s chapter, “Pie and Chase,” got me thinking about the differences between gags and slapstick and trying to pinpoint examples in media I’ve seen. While… Read More »Pie and Chase B99
I really struggled when trying to come up with something that related to Gunning and/or Crafton’s arguments thus found myself scouting around my room, (gave… Read More »Quite literally a running gag
“Spy” (2015) uses Melissa McCarthy’s skills in comedy acting to present an array of gags, much of which would be considered slapstick. One particular scene… Read More »Spy and Chase (Elouisa Cairns)
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
At the opening of each Ice Age film, there is a short sequence in which Scrat attempts to obtain and hold on to his acorn.… Read More »Scrat’s Acorn and the Running ‘Gags’ of Ice Age Films
In “Crazy Machines in the Garden of Forking Paths: Mischief Gags and The Origins of American Film Comedy,” Tom Gunning outlines a structure of early… Read More »Tom Gunning and Tom and Jerry
In Tom Gunning’s “Response to “Pie and Chase”” (1994), he states that ‘it is by seeming to resemble certain narrative situations that narrative anticipation is… Read More »Nathan for You and Gunning’s “Response to Pie and Chase” (Ameline KA)
Whilst reading Tom Gunning’s analysis on the ‘mischief gag’ in early cinema, Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) stood out to me as an example of… Read More »Home Alone and the ‘Mischief Gag’
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)