The workings of black comedy In film and television drama by Iman Hassan Alwan, Athraa Mohammed Hasan

“…The employment of language elements is based on intellectual foundations in terms of content, and aesthetic in terms of form, through a series of directive processing that falls on the director, as he draws and builds the features of traditional dramatic work in general, And black comedy works in drama in particular, as black comedy has its goals politically, socially and economically, and it also has its own style that it deliberately raises and addresses those topics that are forbidden in the monotheistic religions, or those that are considered taboos in some societies, armed with the principle of paradox between Laughter and sarcasm, between revealing scandals, and playing with death, between the stinging satire, which draws a smile and puts a dagger in the heart, at the same time, it relies on presenting laughter with a special philosophy mixed with hysterical crying, which reveals and exposes failure, failure, downfall, and the decline of values in societies, and everything that is hidden. …”
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