Dark Laughter

Author : Juan F. Egea
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299295431

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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.

Author : Sherwood Anderson
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513288499

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Dark Laughter (1925) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of many Americans in the early-twentieth century. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson’s Dark Laughter was his only bestseller. Inspired by the stream of consciousness style of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Anderson produced a novel that remains controversial for its depictions of race, class, and sexuality. >“Bruce Dudley stood near a window that was covered with flecks of paint and through which could be faintly seen, first a pile of empty boxes, then a more or less littered factory yard running down to a steep bluff, and beyond the brown waters of the Ohio River.” Bruce, a factory worker in Old Harbor, Indiana, is your average working man. He lives a simple life, keeps a low profile, spends his money at the bar with his friends, and tries not to get fired. As far as anyone knows, there is nothing special about him whatsoever; he is a drifter who found his way to Old Harbor by chance and settled down to make himself some money. But Bruce was born in Old Harbor; raised on its streets and educated in its schools, he lived most of his life by another name: John Stockton, Indiana native turned Chicago reporter. Married with kids, he was happy as far as anyone could tell. Up until the day he left, he was still John Stockton, but the change that came over him late in life was too great to resist. He needed a new name, a new life. He wanted to start over in the place where he began. When an opportunity comes to work as a gardener for the factory owner’s wife, Bruce soon finds it impossible to resist her brazen advances. Dark Laughter is a tale of guilt, identity, and shame from master storyteller Sherwood Anderson. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood Anderson’s Dark Laughter is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Eve Halloway
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475941425

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Dark Laughter Ii by Eve Halloway Pdf

Psychic sex abuse is enabled by remote viewing and visualization. Called remote influencing, it is practiced by military operatives. Also, an object can be embued with psychic energy, called human psychotronic energy, and be used as a weapon. When it is used for a sexual attack, it is very painful. The attack leaves the victim shattered, but it leaves no scars, so there is no legal recourse. In addition to psychic abuse this book contains information previously in the Sci-Fi category. Well, not so much now, folks. Theres information about all kinds of other psychic phenomena, psychic warfare, EM pulse weapons, the real story on those lights over Pheonix, why the ETs are here, the so-called alien abductions, the military and ETs, talking trees, bees that listen, the consciousness of machines, and much more. This book, like my previous book, Dark Laughter: Portrait of a Psychic Sex Relationship, is about my experiences with psychic sex and psychic abuse. But it contains far more information on the paranormal and-gulp-its link with quantum physics than did the first book. I freely indulged my fascination for secrets and brought them to you in this book.

Author : Sherwood Anderson
Publisher : Edizioni Grenelle
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788899370138

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Scritto nel 1925, il romanzo Dark Laughter è una piccola Odissea moderna. Le pianure del Middle West, i grandi fiumi, le città dure, fanno da sfondo alle vicende del protagonista, John Stockton, un uomo in fuga dalle convenzioni e dalle finzioni sociali e alla ricerca di un nuovo sé. In un mondo sospeso tra reale e possibile, tra presente e infanzia, tra biografia e storia, si agita una costellazione di personaggi irrisolti, di figure simboliche. La tensione espressiva del linguaggio, il bisogno di una maggiore aderenza alla vita, l’urgenza di amare, di risolvere il mito dell’infanzia e di dare, infine, un senso al proprio esistere, sono alcuni dei temi che percorrono un romanzo fatto di grande intensità, scritto con un linguaggio moderno, asciutto ed essenziale.

Author : Oliver Wendell Harrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015032576269

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An appreciative retrospective of the art created by the man Langston Hughes called America's greatest black cartoonist.

Author : Anca Parvulescu
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262514743

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Laughter by Anca Parvulescu Pdf

Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw. Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather, their focus is the laughable object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous, jokes, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter, Anca Parvulescu proposes a return to the materiality of the burst of laughter itself. She sets out to uncover an archive of laughter, inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to its tones. Historically, laughter—especially the passionate burst of laughter—has often been a faux pas. Manuals for conduct, abetted by philosophical treatises and literary and visual texts, warned against it, offering special injunctions to ladies to avoid jollity that was too boisterous. Returning laughter to the history of the passions, Parvulescu anchors it at the point where the history of the grimacing face meets the history of noise. In the civilizing process that leads to laughter's “falling into disrepute,” as Nietzsche famously put it, we can see the formless, contorted face in laughter being slowly corrected into a calm, social smile. How did the twentieth century laugh? Parvulescu points to a gallery of twentieth-century laughers and friends of laughter, arguing that it is through Georges Bataille that the century laughed its most distinct laugh. In Bataille's wake, laughter becomes the passion at the heart of poststructuralism. Looking back at the century from this vantage point, Parvulescu revisits four of its most challenging projects: modernism, the philosophical avant-gardes, feminism, and cinema. The result is an overview of the twentieth century as seen through the laughs that burst at some of its most convoluted junctures.

Author : Sherwood Anderson,Dunn, Tom
Publisher : Pocket Books of Canada
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1007691622

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Author : Louise Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137578822

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Victorian Comedy and Laughter by Louise Lee Pdf

This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality,Jokes and Dissent offers new readings of the works of Charles Dickens, Edward Lear,George Eliot, George Gissing, Barry Pain and Oscar Wilde, alongside discussions of much-loved Victorian comics like Little Tich, Jenny Hill, Bessie Bellwood and Thomas Lawrence. Tracing three consecutive and interlocking moods in the period, all of the contributors engage with the crucial critical question of how laughter and comedy shaped Victorian subjectivity and aesthetic form. Malcolm Andrews, Jonathan Buckmaster and Peter Swaab explore the dream of print culture togetherness that is conviviality, while Bob Nicholson, Louise Lee, Ann Featherstone,Louise Wingrove and Oliver Double discuss the rise-on-rise of the Victorian joke — both on the page and the stage — while Peter Jones, Jonathan Wild and Matthew Kaiser consider the impassioned debates concerning old and new forms of laughter that took place at the end of the century.

Author : Robert R. Provine
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781101659250

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Laughter by Robert R. Provine Pdf

Do men and women laugh at the same things? Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.

Author : David Watt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350146860

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Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England by David Watt Pdf

'We live,' according to Adam Kotsko, 'in an awkward age.' While this condition may present some challenges, it may also help us to be more attuned to awkwardness in other ages. This book pairs medieval texts with twenty-first century films or television programmes to explore what the resonance between them can tell us about living together in an awkward age. In this nuanced and engaging study, David Watt focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the 15th century, which seems to intervene awkwardly in the literary trajectory between Chaucer and the Renaissance. This book's hypothesis is that the social discomfort depicted and engendered by writers as diverse as Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, and Sir Thomas Malory is a feature rather than a flaw. Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England explains that these authors have a great deal in common with other fifteenth-century authors, who generated embodied experiences of social discomfort in a range of genres by adopting and adapting literary techniques used by their predecessors and successors in slightly different ways. Like the twenty-first century texts with which they are paired, the late-medieval texts that feature in this book use the relationship between laughter and awkwardness to ask what it means to live with each other and how we can learn to live with ourselves.

Author : Temim Fruchter
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802161291

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City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter Pdf

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years An ambitious, delirious novel that tangles with queerness, spirituality, and generational silence, City of Laughter announces Temim Fruchter as a fresh and assured new literary voice. The tale of a young queer woman stuck in a thicket of generational secrets, the novel follows her back to her family’s origins, where ancestral clues begin to reveal a lineage both haunted and shaped by desire. Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger—bringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need, and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming century. In the present day, Shiva Margolin, recovering from the heartbreak of her first big queer love and grieving the death of her beloved father, struggles to connect with her guarded mother, who spends most of her time at the local funeral home. A student of Jewish folklore, Shiva seizes an opportunity to visit Poland, hoping her family’s mysteries will make more sense if she walks in the footsteps of her great-grandmother Mira, about whom no one speaks. What she finds will make her question not only her past and her future, but also her present. Electric and sharply intimate, City of Laughter zigzags between our universe and a tapestry of real and invented Jewish folklore, asking how far we can travel from the stories that have raised us without leaving them behind.

Author : Eric Weitz
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1904505058

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The Power of Laughter by Eric Weitz Pdf

Essays on comedy in contemporary Irish theatre

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811216748

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Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Pdf

Tragedy of a rich and respectable Berlin art dealer and his passion for his young mistress.

Author : John Willock
Publisher : Fred B. Rothman
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Law
ISBN : UIUC:30112021498511

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Legal Facetiae by John Willock Pdf

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787675

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Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov Pdf

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.