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Article: American Dark Comedy: Beyond Satire. (book reviews)

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June 22, 1997
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Wes Gehring is one of our most prolific and instructive writers on film comedy. His books on Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers, and screwball comedy are indispensable. In this study he places "dark" film comedy - work with grim and violent humor - in the context of "black humor" more broadly, and he takes a closer look at several important examples of the genre.

Gehring's first chapter is a "historical and literary overview" that attempts to establish contexts for dark comedy in Western literature from Aristophanes to the postmodernists and in historical and philosophic perspectives that might account for its point of view and its appeal. Frankly, the chapter is a ...

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