Haunted Laughter
Title | Haunted Laughter PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan C. Friedman |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2022-03-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1793640165 |
A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Haunted Laughter addresses whether it is appropriate to use comedy as a literary form to depict Adolf Hitler, The Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Guided by existing theories of comedy and memory and through a comprehensive examination of comedic film and television productions, from the United States, Israel, and Europe, Jonathan Friedman proposes a model and a set of criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of comedy as a means of representation. These criteria include depth of purpose, relevance to the times, and originality of form and content. Friedman concludes that comedies can be effective if they provide relevant information about life and death in the past, present, or future; break new ground; and serve a purpose or multiple purposes—capturing the dynamic of the Nazi system of oppression, empowering or healing victims, serving as a warning for the future, or keeping those who can never grasp the real horror of genocide from losing perspective.
Screaming with Laughter
Title | Screaming with Laughter PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Dahl |
Publisher | Capstone |
Total Pages | 42 |
Release | 2010-08 |
Genre | Riddles, Juvenile |
ISBN | 1404861017 |
A collection of jokes about monsters, ghosts, and other scary things.
The Psychology of Laughter
Title | The Psychology of Laughter PDF eBook |
Author | Boris Sidis |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Laughter |
ISBN |
A look at the main psychological principles that underlie laughter and humor their various manifestations.
The Humor Code
Title | The Humor Code PDF eBook |
Author | Peter McGraw |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2015-04-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1451665423 |
Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist travel the globe to discover the secret behind what makes things funny, questioning countless experts, including Louis C.K., along the way.
The Devil Makes Work for Creative Hands
Title | The Devil Makes Work for Creative Hands PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie H. Scrutton |
Publisher | Paragon Publishing |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2021-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1782228551 |
An Artist, Animator and Performance Poet, Jamie H. Scrutton takes you on a journey into his animated imagination. From creating his often bizarre characters, through to his observational whimsical anecdotes, to his personal experiences with mental health, these scribbles are all compiled from selected Journal entries.
Haunted Massachusetts
Title | Haunted Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | Cheri Farnsworth |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 153 |
Release | 2020-06-11 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1493046292 |
Cemetery spooks, haunted historic homes and Native American legends figure prominently in this collection of eerie in tales from the Bay State. From the beaches and cliffs of the Atlantic coast and the historic streets of Boston to the beautiful Berkshires come a variety of stories and legends, including the phantom canoe of two dead Mohegan lovers, the haunted Danvers Lunatic Asylum whose former residents never really left, and eyewitness accounts of UFOs sightings that date back to the mid-1800s.
The Haunted (Harbingers)
Title | The Haunted (Harbingers) PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Peretti |
Publisher | Bethany House |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 2017-04-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1441231323 |
Professor McKinney, an atheist ex-priest, and the Harbingers team confront a supernatural mystery, a case of murder, and an exploration into the darkness of the human heart--all centering around a mysterious house that seems to have the ability to appear and disappear at certain times.