The Dark Comedy of the Courtroom: Norman Jewison’s And Justice for All by Mikkel Jensen

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Cringe and Sympathy: The Comedy of Mental Illness in <i>Flowers</i> by Linda M. Hess

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Hand to God: The Irreverent Laughter of Robert Askins - “Laugh, motherfuckers, that shit’s funny” (Askins 31) by Marianne Drugeon

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Impacts on quality: Enjoyment factors in blind and low vision audience entertainment ratings: A qualitative study. by Mala D Naraine, Deborah I Fels, Margot Whitfield

“…Some participants, however, preferred the conventional style and struggled with the language and topic of a dark comedy and its associated descriptions.…”
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The boorish bionic brute by Low, Kay Shim

“…The Boorish Bionic Brute is a 3D animated dark comedy, set in the medieval age. The film was created with Maya, Mudbox, Nuke and Photoshop, with a stronger focus on the technical aspects in an attempt to mirror the industry pipeline and standard.…”
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Inherent Cheese by Cheak, Wen Sheng, Loo Crystal Xiao Wei, Ng, Joshua Jun Hao, Tan, Shi Jia

“…This is a report documenting the final year project (narrative short film) of the Wonderful Thugs: Inherent Cheese, a dark comedy.…”
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From The Corner of His Eye / by Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-

“…Some men are not serial killers--they just keep finding reasons, which seem good to them at the time, for a series of murders; Junior, the villain of Dean Koontz's genuinely strange dark comedy of misunderstanding and awful death From the Corner of his Eye suffers from the delusion that he is the favoured child of destiny, and that all he has to do is tinker with reality one more time, kill one more person. …”

Animalia by Toner, Ian

“…A fast-paced, dark comedy about Danielle and Sarah who used to be best friends when they were kids. …”
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Lavery’s Frozen: The Psychosexual History of a Sexual Predator and the Poetics of Anti-Paedophilia by Murat Öğütcü

“…Lavery’s use of black and dark comedy further challenges conventional ways of dealing with such serious matters. …”
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An Ode to Black British Girls by Jeanelle Kevina Hope

“…In sum, this article understands Coel’s work in Chewing Gum to be Black girl surrealism – the intersection of Afro-surrealism, British dark comedy, and Black feminism.…”
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Bedlam is the Only Cure: by Kwasu David Tembo

“…While popular interpretations of Poe's dark comedy “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” describe the text, its themes, aesthetics, and narrative as satirical political commentary on American democracy, a latently subversive polemic against nineteenth Century American medico-legal praxes and their ancillary institutions, or as a parody of the works of other notable authors such as Charles Dickens and Nathaniel Parker Willis, the fact that Poe's narrative transpires within the confines of a Maison de Santé suggests that the text is also importantly theoretically complex. …”
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Political Contextuality of Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen: An Intervention in the Debate over Capital Punishment in Britain by Özlem ÖZMEN

“…In light of this observation, the aim of this article is to discuss McDonagh’s topical dark comedy as a political intervention in the debate over death penalty in Britain by providing appropriate case studies of several hanging offences in the history of Britain.…”
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BOOK REVIEW: LOTTA ELSTAD, “JEG NEKTER Å TENKE (I REFUSE TO THINK)”, OSLO, EDITURA FLAMME FORLAG, 2017, 240 P. by Ana SUĂRĂȘAN

“…Winner of the Oslo Prize for best novel in 2017, I refuse to think is a daring and witty feministic dark comedy, extremely contemporary, written in the author’s specific energetic and light, but also sharp satirical style. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: LOTTA ELSTAD, “JEG NEKTER Å TENKE (I REFUSE TO THINK)”, OSLO, EDITURA FLAMME FORLAG, 2017, 240 P. by Ana SUĂRĂȘAN

“…Winner of the Oslo Prize for best novel in 2017, I refuse to think is a daring and witty feministic dark comedy, extremely contemporary, written in the author’s specific energetic and light, but also sharp satirical style. …”
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Truman Capote’s Unfinished Novel “Answered Prayers”: On the History of Creation and Publication by Denis Zakharov

“…New archival findings – a fragment from an unpublished Capote’s letter to the literary critic Arvin Newton referring to the acquaintance of the writer with Mikhail Lermontov’s works – become the starting point for the investigation of the possible influence that Mikhail Lermontov’s novel A Hero of Our Time could have exerted on Capote’s concept of the “dark comedy about the rich and the famous”, and his narrator P.B. …”
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Aphorism in Stevie Smith by Masud, N

“…With her disconcerting pen-andink drawings, dark comedy, and social ventriloquism which stops short of satire, the rhetorical force of Smith’s poetry fascinates and arrests its readers, but nevertheless leaves them unable to react coherently, identify the use-value which her writing appears to promise, or delve successfully beneath its compelling surface. …”