Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/59697
Title: On Second Thought
Contributor(s): Moss, Joshua Louis (author); Morris, Linda (author); Prados-Torreira, Teresa (author); Scully, Richard  (author)orcid ; Soper, Kerry (author); Kneubuhl, Victoria Nalani (author)
Publication Date: 2022
DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.8.1.0003
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/59697
Abstract: 

In her response to my article “Cutting to the Punch: Graphic Stunt Comedy and the Emergence of Crisis Slapstick” (StAH 7, no. 1 [2021]: 11–38), Maggie Hennefeld raises a number of important questions about fraught humor and body crisis, particularly as they relate to the radical alterity of risk taking and violence in different historical eras, which I agree are underexplored in my essay.1 Hennefeld’s observation that earlier examples of radical crisis slapstick comedic disruptions can be found in theater, pornography, and avant-garde performance spaces (Ahwesh, Wishman, Waters, etc.) is particularly insightful, and I intend to address those disruptions in my forthcoming book. However, Hennefeld’s main critique, as far as I can decipher it, is that I am drawing a distinction between slapstick and crisis slapstick that does not exist because slapstick has always had a power for “destabilizing the known world, especially during moments of intense...

Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Studies in American Humor, 8(1), p. 3-12
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 2333-9934
0095-280X
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 430313 History of empires, imperialism and colonialism
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Publisher/associated links: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/article/852689/pdf
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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