Asst. Prof. Tina Post became intrigued with how the gesture of expressionlessness operated in the 20th-century Black performances across literature, visual and performance art, film, theater, dance, ...
Deadpan is not so much a type of joke as a mode of delivery, a manner of address to an audience that often provokes nervous laughter. Comedian Nathan Fielder’s persona is marked by deadpan. In his hit ...
Introduction: Some type of way -- 1. Subjectivity and self-specimenization -- 2. Minimalism and the aesthetics of Black threat -- 3. The opacity gradient -- 4. Excess and absence (or, The Negro ...
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Priscilla Presley’s difficult battles against laughing with Leslie Nielsen on ‘The Naked Gun’ set
Image Credit: Still from The Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) / Paramount Pictures Think you know how the iconic ‘The ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Emilia Mickevicius, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) Deadpan is not so much a ...
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