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Bloody Disgusting! Abjection, Excess & Absurdity: The Carnivalesque Cohesion Between Horror & Comedy in Film & Television / SARAH CROWTHER

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Horror and comedy. Screaming and laughing. Two genres and the visceral responses which they provoke, broadly considered to be polarised, apparently juxtaposed. This thesis argues that horror and comedy can be significantly more cohesive in their thematic traits, visual presentation and narrative eve...

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Published: 2021
Institution: Swansea University
Degree level: Doctoral
Degree name: Ph.D
Supervisor: Dr David Britton; Dr Nicko Vaughan
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