1,135
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

British dark comedy television and the bodily aesthetics of the ‘Proper person’

References

  • Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1984. Rabelais and His World. Translated by Hélène Iswolsky. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Barounis, Cynthia. 2013. “‘Why so Serious?’ Cripping Camp Performance in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight.” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 7(3): 305–320.
  • Bergson, Henri. 1956. “Laughter.” In Comedy, edited by Wylie Sypher, 59–190. New York: Doubleday Anchor.
  • Bucaria, Chiara. 2008. “Dubbing Dark Humour: A Case Study in Audiovisual Translation.” Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 4(2): 215–240. doi:10.2478/v10016-008-0014-2.
  • Butler, Judith. 2004. Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso.
  • Carroll, Noël. 1990. The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart. London: Routledge.
  • Coogan, Tom, and Rebecca Mallett. 2013. “Introduction: Disability, Humour and Comedy.” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 7(3): 247–253.
  • “Doctors Condemn Little Britain Sketch.” The Guardian, November 25, 2005. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/nov/23/health.broadcasting.
  • Featherstone, Mike, and Mike Hepworth. 1991. “The Mask of Ageing and the Postmodern Life Course.” In The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory, edited by Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, and Bryan S. Turner, 371–389. London: Sage.
  • Freeland, Cynthia. 2000. The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
  • Freud, Sigmund. 1960. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Translated by James Strachey. New York: W. W. Norton.
  • Freud, Sigmund. 2012. Totem and Taboo. Translated by Abraham A. Brill. Oxford: Acheron Press.
  • Gilman, Sander L. 1995. Health and Illness: Images of Difference. London: Reaktion Books.
  • Goffman, Erving. 1990. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. London: Penguin.
  • Hunt, Leon. 2008. The League of Gentlemen. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hunt, Leon. 2013. Cult British TV Comedy: From Reeves and Mortimer to Psychoville. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Hutchings, Peter. 2007. “Welcome to Royston Vasey: Grotesque Bodies and the Horror of Comedy in The League of Gentlemen.” Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media 4. https://intensitiescultmedia.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/hutchings-welcome-to-royston-vasey.pdf.
  • Leder, Drew. 1990. The Absent Body. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Lockyer, Sharon. 2015. “From Comedy Targets to Comedy-Makers: Disability and Comedy in Live Performance.” Disability & Society 30(9): 1397–1412. doi:10.1080/09687599.2015.1106402.
  • Loja, E., M. E. Costa, B. Hughes, and I. Menezes. 2013. “Disability, Embodiment and Ableism: Stories of Resistance.” Disability & Society 28(2): 190–203. doi:10.1080/09687599.2012.705057.
  • Mallett, Rebecca. 2010. “Claiming Comedic Immunity or, What Do You Get When You Cross Contemporary British Comedy with Disability.” Disability Studies Review: An International Journal 6(3): 4–14.
  • Meszaros, M. Beth. 2003. “Enlightened by Our Afflictions: Portrayals of Disability in the Comic Theatre of Beth Henley and Martin McDonagh.” Disability Studies Quarterly 23(3–4). doi:10.18061/dsq.v23i3/4.433.
  • Russo, Mary. 1986. “Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory.” In Feminist Studies/Critical Studies, edited by Teresa de Lauretis, 213–229. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Seltzer, Mark. 1998. Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture. New York: Routledge.
  • Shakespeare, Tom. 1999. “Joking a Part.” Body & Society 5(4): 47–52. doi:10.1177/1357034X99005004004.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.