Film and Media Studies
/ Languages and Linguistics
Derek Price (University of California - Berkeley)
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The Comparative Media session is open to any paper that explores media broadly defined but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme, "Send In the Clowns." Possible topics include theories of clowning for film, television, or the internet; histories of horror clowns in media; Bozo, Clarabell, and TV Clowns; clowning as political satire; carnivalesque and purgative laughter in media; clowning, krumping, and hip hop culture; or archetypal clowns, fools, and idiots across media or within technologies; transgressive humour/satire and their use across media platforms, etc.
The Comparative Media session is open to any paper that explores media broadly defined but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme, "Send In the Clowns." Possible topics include theories of clowning for film, television, or the internet; histories of horror clowns in media; Bozo, Clarabell, and TV Clowns; clowning as political satire; carnivalesque and purgative laughter in media; clowning, krumping, and hip hop culture; or archetypal clowns, fools, and idiots across media or within technologies; transgressive humour/satire and their use across media platforms, etc.