Gunning / Carroll / Golum
Tom Gunning speaks to the ‘operational aesthetic’ of mischief gags in early cinema, describing a fascination with the ‘process and functioning’ of machines.[1] However, what… Read More »Emily Taylor- Stewart Lee as Rascal Engineer
In her “Cinema Year Zero: Tik Tok and the Grammar of Silent Film” article, Caroline Golum enlightens us on how Tik Tok, the social media… Read More »Prisca Spagnol – Tik Tok and Early Cinema
Tom Gunning states that a mischief gag in early comedies required “a preparatory action” which was “undertaken with a very precise aim in view. The… Read More »Anastasia Norenko – Mischief Gag in Home Alone
One of the most interesting aspects from Caroline Golum’s article is her observations of figures on social media platform’s rise in mainstream media. Golum comments… Read More »Maddie Cornetta – TikTok and YouTube’s Rising Stars
In reading through Gunning’s explanation of the mischief gag, I found myself thinking about the formula that SNL uses in many of their skits. Gunning’s… Read More »Caroline Vandis — Repeating the Mischief Gag in “Angelo”
I was particularly interested in Tom Gunning’s description and formative outline of the mischief gag, and I believe this formula appears in many modern comedy… Read More »Nick DiCorpo – Tom Gunning and Impractical Jokers
Reading through Noël Carroll’s “Notes on the Sight Gag,” I was tempted, in much the same way as Caroline Golum, to connect Caroll’s observations to… Read More »Kas Schroeder- Vine and the Sight Gag
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
When reading Tom Gunning’s chapter, I found her argument on the influence of the Lumiere Brothers’ film L’Arroseur arrosé (Lumiere, Paris, 1865), on narrative comedy… Read More »Hana El Hilaly- Roadrunner the Rascal, Wile E Cayote the Victim.
I was particularly interested in Tom Gunning’s ideas about mischief gags in ‘Crazy Machines in the Garden of Forking Paths’, and I would like to… Read More »Raya Milushev – Tom Gunning and Tom and Jerry