LISA G. BAIRD, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-23-1993 BLACK COMEDY -- CROSSOVER BRINGS OPPORTUNITY, RISK By LISA G. BAIRD, Staff Writer Date: 05-23-1993, Sunday Section: LIFESTYLE / ENTERTAINMENT Edition: All Editions -- Sunday It's Tuesday night at the Main...

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Mitchell Lichtenstein’s film Teeth—a black comedy about an adolescent girl coping with vagina dentata—premiered on Monday, Jan. 14, at MoMA’s Celeste Bartos Theater. In the film, Dawn, played by Jess Weixler, tries to suppress her blossoming sexuality in the face of her stepbrother’s overtly wanton...

Hypocrisy _ religious and otherwise _ is the theme of a double dose of classics Theatre for a New Audience has brought to off-Broadway's Duke on 42nd Street.The plays are William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and Christopher Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta," two works...

In the following excerpt, Weisenburger explains that many intellectuals viewed black humorists as writers who had wasted the force of their words with overuse of the same banal sentiments they sought to satirize. Instead, Weisenburger feels it is important to reevaluate the place of black humor in the field of American literary studies, placing it in context with other postmodern movements.

In the following essay, Safer characterizes Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion as a work of epic vision and scope that derives its most poignant power from elements of black humor.

In the following essay, Erickson analyzes black humor in the context of André Breton's model of a new literary discourse, as it was outlined in his Anthologie de l'humour noir, focusing on the circumstances that lead to the creation of black humor.