Doctoral candidate Brannan publishes article in Horror Studies journal
Doctoral candidate Alex Brannan recently published “A broader framework for the horror comedy: Alternation, conflation and multiple genre hybridities” in the Horror Studies journal. Brannan’s article argues for a broader approach to the horror comedy, which accounts for both horror studies and humor studies theory as well as the multiplicity of tonal hybridities that exist in individual films.
To approach this broader framework, three case study films – “The Gore Gore Girls” (1972), “Society” (1989) and “All My Friends Hate Me” (2021) – are analyzed using two dominant theoretical frameworks.
- The first is characterized by tonal alternation, in which a film’s tone rapidly shifts from horror to humor or vice versa.
- The other is characterized by tonal conflation, in which horror and humor operate simultaneously.
By borrowing from these existing theoretical frames, this piece makes the case for a horror comedy study that takes a more holistic approach to the complex blending of tones that occur within individual films.
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