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When evil clowns menace the screen, do we scream or laugh? When
zombies converge to tear a victim limb from limb, do we cringe and
hide our eyes, or shriek "What??! Play that again!!"? What about
those instances when these seemingly opposite reactions happen at
once? This is the phenomenon known as sLaughter. Horrific Humor and
the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaughter
presents the first focused look at the moment in audience reception
where screams and laughter collide. John A. Dowell and Cynthia J.
Miller bring together twelve essays from an international
collection of authors across the disciplines. The volume begins
with an examination of the aesthetics and mechanics of the
sLaughter moment, then moves closer to look at the impact of its
awkward frission of humor and horror on the individual viewer, and
finally, broadens its lens to explore sLaughter's implications for
the human condition more generally. The chapters discuss such box
office hits such as A Clockwork Orange (1971), Fargo (1996), The
Dark Knight (2008), and The Cabin in the Woods (2012), as well as
cult classics such as The Toxic Avenger (1984) and Dead Snow
(2009). Engaging and thought provoking, Horrific Humor and the
Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema will be of great interest to
scholars of both humor and horror, as well as to those working in
reception studies and fans of cult cinema.
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