Essays about: "dark humour"

Found 3 essays containing the words dark humour.

1. 1. Parallel Reality. A Freaky Freaky Broadcast.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

   Author : Eirini Konstantinou; [2023-01-24]
   Keywords : Performance; shared opinion; theatre; news bulletin; reporters; dark clowns; satire; current affairs; grotesque; opposition; fake news; acting; humour;

   Abstract : My research was on how news is being presented to the public and the means of manipulation that are being used to patronise the public in the intended direction. The product was a performance based on a fictional news bulletin. Fake news but also true facts behind the words. Exaggeration was my main tool to convince. READ MORE

3. 2. In-Yer-Face: A Study of Unsettling British TV Comedy, Critical Discomfort and Public Offence

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Linn Lönroth; [2013]
   Keywords : Chris Morris; The League of Gentlemen; Offence; Comedy; Bakhtin; Offensive comedy; Brass Eye; The Day Today; Jam; Derek; Ricky Gervais; shock; taboo; humour; dark humour; dark comedy; André Breton; British humour; British TV; transgression; provocation; laughter; Armando Iannucci; BBC; Channel 4; sick humour; tastless comedy; Cultural Sciences; Performing Arts; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : In this essay I explore contemporary British TV comedy that unsettles and offends its audience by pushing humour to its very outer limits. Attempts to breach decorum and provoke the reader/audience is not a new phenomenon, and by looking at the Modernist rejection of bourgeois values I try to contextualise this fascination with transgression and provocation. READ MORE

4. 3. Dark Humour : and its use in advertising: perceptions of generation Y

   University essay from IHH, Marketing and Logistics

   Author : Lisa Andersson; Ida Rosén; [2013]
   Keywords : ;

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