Dead Funny - David Gillota

Dead Funny

The Humor of American Horror

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3416-3 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
Locates humor as a key element in the American horror film, one that is not merely used for extraneous ‘comic relief’ moments but often serves to underscore major themes, intensify suspense, and disorient viewers. Each chapter focuses on a different comic style or device.
Horror films strive to make audiences scream, but they also garner plenty of laughs. In fact, there is a long tradition of horror directors who are fluent in humor, from James Whale to John Landis to Jordan Peele. So how might horror and humor overlap more than we would expect?

 

Dead Funny locates humor as a key element in the American horror film, one that is not merely used for extraneous “comic relief” moments but often serves to underscore major themes, intensify suspense, and disorient viewers. Each chapter focuses on a different comic style or device, from the use of funny monsters and scary clowns in movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street to the physical humor and slapstick in movies ranging from The Evil Dead to Final Destination.  Along the way, humor scholar David Gillota explores how horror films employ parody, satire, and camp to comment on gender, sexuality, and racial politics. Covering everything from the grotesque body in Freaks to the comedy of awkwardness in Midsommar, this book shows how integral humor has been to the development of the American horror film over the past century. 

DAVID GILLOTA is an associate professor of English at University of Wisconsin, Platteville. He is the author of Ethnic Humor in Multiethnic America (Rutgers University Press) and is the editor of the journal Studies in American Humor.  

Introduction: Approaching Horror through Humor


1. Parodying Horror, Horror as Parody


2. Clowns, Fools, and Dummies: Horror’s Comic Monsters


3. Painfully Funny: The Humor of Body Horror


4. Camping Out: Horror’s Queer Humor and Gender Play


5. Cringes and Creeps: Exploring Awkward Horror


6. Horror, Humor, and Critique: Satire in Horror


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 7 bw images
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 50 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-9788-3416-0 / 1978834160
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-3416-3 / 9781978834163
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