Blog Post 9 (due 5 PM Wednesday 2nd April)

Week 9 Horror Comedy

Required reading:
Noel Carroll, ‘Horror and humour’, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57:2 (1999), 145-160.

Michael A Arnzen, ‘Who’s laughing now? The postmodern splatter film’, Journal of Popular Film and Television, 21:4 (1994): 176-184.

Jonathan L. Crane, “‘It was a dark and stormy night . . .’: Horror Films and the Problem of Irony,” Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Worst Nightmare (Cambridge: CUP, 2004), 142-156.