Blog Post 5 (due 5 PM Wednesday 26th February)
Week 5 The Psychology, Phenomenology and Politics of Laughter
Required reading:
Norbert Elias, “Essay on Laughter” [1956], Critical Inquiry 43 (Winter 2017), 281-304.
Anca Parvulescu, “Cinema, or the Laughing Gas Party,” Laughter: Notes on a Passion (Cambridge: MIT, 2010), 119-155.
Julian Hanich, “Chuckle, Chortle, Cackle: A Phenomenology of Cinematic Laughter,” The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 189-216.