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American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire
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American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire
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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
.
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
.
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