Blog Post 5 (due 5 PM Wednesday 26th February)

A laugh, as Julian Hanich points out in his chapter on the phenomenology of cinematic laughter, doesn’t have to come from finding something funny. It… Read More »Hanich Says… Don’t Flinch

“In terms of form, we can equally discover differences in laughter, depending on how the comic and ridiculous reveal themselves to us: Are they offered… Read More »Hanich: “Prop Switch” – Studio C

Julian Hanich discusses collective viewing as a heightening factor for laughter as a response to watching a comedy. In doing so, Hanich outlines ten different… Read More »Friends Pivot Scene Blooper and Julian Hanich’s Types of Laughter

I can remember several instances as a kid watching a children’s film and having adults laugh at moments I couldn’t comprehend, or at jokes I… Read More »“My donkey fell in your waffle hole”: Adult jokes in children’s films

An actor laughing while on live television is a phenomenon in which an actor laughs at the joke which is being performed as the audience… Read More »Breaking: Unprofessional or hilarious?

I was particularly taken by a question that Norbert Elias poses in his essay on laughter, reckoning with the often contradictory purpose of laughter. He… Read More »Laughing Gas in A Housefull Theatre (Parthiv Chhabria)