Dead funny : the humor of American horror /
"Horror films strive to make audiences scream, but they also make them laugh. Little work has been done, however, to explain precisely how horror's humor operates. Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror offers a road map of key humorous devices that have been prominent in North American...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2023]
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18530943 |
جدول المحتويات:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Approaching Horror through Humor
- 1. Parodying Horror, Horror as Parody
- 2. Clowns, Fools, and Dummies
- 3. Painfully Funny
- 4. Camping Out
- 5. Cringes and Creeps
- 4. Horror, Humor, and Critique
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author