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Taking laughter seriously
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The article was published on 1982-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 475 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Laughter.read more
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'Drawing comic traditions' : British television animation from 1997 to 2010
Abstract: This thesis examines the shifts within mainstream British television animation between 1997 and 2010 and it discusses how British animation’s close relationship with live-action television comedy reveals a map of contemporary attitudes and tastes. The British animated texts in this period reacted to their shifting industrial and broadcasting landscape. The historical moment of the late 1990s was determined by the successes of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, which profoundly affected the way British practitioners conceived of the medium’s capabilities within a mainstream television environment.
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Affect philosophy meets incongruity: about transformative potentials in comic laughter
TL;DR: In this paper, Emmmerson and Parvulescu take an integrative approach to laughter and the comic, analyzes, then synthesizes, points of convergence between key texts in affect philosophy and certain elements of incongruity-based humour theory and demonstrate that some integration can bring insight and clarity to discussion of transformative potentials sometimes attributed to forms of comic laughter.
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Malay humorous tales : performance, corpus of oral texts and its study
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The Relationship Between Deceptive Claims and Ad Effect: The Moderating Role of Humorous Ads
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether advertisements with different types of humor influence the relationship between deceptive claims and the effect of the advertisement and found that vague/ambiguous claims with incongruity humor and false/outright lie claims with arousal-safety humor can result in a better ad effect.
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Exploring the Relationship between Humor and Aesthetic Experience
TL;DR: Gordon et al. as discussed by the authors explored the connection between humor and aesthetic experience and argued that although it may be the case that both humor and aesthetics create a shift in the viewer, the kind of shift we experience in each is generally quite different.