The Dark Comedy
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A Dirty Job
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Author : Christopher Moore
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-11-05
A Dirty Job written by Christopher Moore and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-05 with Fiction categories.
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, more of a Beta than an Alpha Male. Charlie's been lucky, though. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a second-hand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normality. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. But normal service is about to be interrupted. As Charlie prepares to go home after the birth, he sees a strange man dressed in mint-green at Rachel's hospital bedside - a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . . People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yep, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.
The Dark Comedy
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Author : J. L. Styan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1968-07
The Dark Comedy written by J. L. Styan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-07 with Drama categories.
Anyone who takes an intelligent interest in theatre-going will find profit and stimulus in this book.
The Dark Comedy
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Author : John Louis Styan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Dark Comedy written by John Louis Styan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Comedy categories.
A Decade Of Dark Humor
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Author : Ted Gournelos
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2011-08-01
A Decade Of Dark Humor written by Ted Gournelos and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with Social Science categories.
A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humor and irony on both media discourse and tangible political reality. Furthermore, it demonstrates that laughter is simultaneously an avenue through which social issues are deferred or obfuscated, a way in which neoliberal or neoconservative rhetoric is challenged, and a means of forming alternative political ideologies. The volume's contributors cover a broad range of media productions, including news parodies (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Onion), TV roundtable shows (Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher), comic strips and cartoons (Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks, Jeff Danzinger's editorial cartoons), television drama (Rescue Me), animated satire (South Park), graphic novels (Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers), documentary (Fahrenheit 9/11), and other productions. Along with examining the rhetorical methods and aesthetic techniques of these productions, the essays place each in specific political and journalistic contexts, showing how corporations, news outlets, and political institutions responded to-and sometimes co-opted-these forms of humor.
The Dark Comedy
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Author : John Louis Styan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Dark Laughter
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Author : Juan F. Egea
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2013
Dark Laughter written by Juan F. Egea and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
In Dark Laughter, Juan F. Egea provides a remarkable in-depth analysis of the dark comedy film genre in Spain, as well as a provocative critical engagement with the idea of national cinema, the visual dimension of cultural specificity, and the ethics of dark humor. Egea begins his analysis with General Franco's dictatorship in the 1960s—a regime that opened the country to new economic forces while maintaining its repressive nature—exploring key works by Luis García Berlanga, Marco Ferreri, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, and Luis Buñuel. Dark Laughter then moves to the first films of Pedro Almodóvar in the early 1980s during the Spanish political transition to democracy before examining Alex de la Iglesia and the new dark comedies of the 1990s. Analyzing this younger generation of filmmakers, Egea traces dark comedy to Spain's displays of ultramodernity such as the Universal Exposition in Seville and the Barcelona Olympic Games. At its core, Dark Laughter is a substantial inquiry into the epistemology of comedy, the intricacies of visual modernity, and the relationship between cinema and a wider framework of representational practices.
American Dark Comedy
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Author : Wes D. Gehring
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1996-07-30
American Dark Comedy written by Wes D. Gehring and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-07-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placing the movies he discusses in a historical and literary context, Gehring explores the genre's obession with death and the characters' failure to be shocked by it. Movies discussed include: Slaughterhouse Five, Catch-2, Clockwork Orange, Harold and Maude, Heathers, and Natural Born Killers.
Good Omens
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Author : Neil Gaiman
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-11-22
Good Omens written by Neil Gaiman and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-22 with Fiction categories.
GOOD OMENS SEASON 2 COMING 28TH JULY ON AMAZON PRIME. The book behind the Amazon Prime / BBC Series starring David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Jon Hamm and Benedict Cumberbatch. 'Ridiculously inventive and gloriously funny' Guardian What if, for once, the predictions are right, and the Apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea? It's a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon, now find themselves in. They've been living amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse. And then there's the small matter that someone appears to have misplaced the Antichrist . . . _____________________ What readers are saying about Good Omens: ***** 'A superb recipe for disaster. I didn't stop grinning from beginning to end.' ***** 'Both Gaiman and Pratchett are great authors and they complement each other brilliantly.' ***** 'Superbly enjoyable read. Seamlessly co-written.'
Dark Humour And Social Satire In The Modern British Novel
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Author : L. Colletta
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2003-09-30
Dark Humour And Social Satire In The Modern British Novel written by L. Colletta and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Colletta uses psychoanalytic theories of joke-work and gallows humour to argue that dark humour is an important, defining characteristic of Modernism. She brings together the usual suspects alongside more often overlooked writers from the period, and asks probing questions about the relationship between a dark humour that 'revels in the non-rational, the unstable, and the fragmented, and resists easy definition and political usefulness' and the historical and social circumstances of the period. Colletta makes a compelling argument that probing deeply into the nature of humour or satire that define these 'social comedies' brings to light a more complex, and more accurate, understanding of the social changes and historical circumstances that define the modern era.
Dark Humor In Films Of The 1960s
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Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-06-11
Dark Humor In Films Of The 1960s written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.