Cultural representations of contemporary Mexican drug culture: Dark humour and irony in relation to the abject by Brigitte Adriaensen

Subjects: “…dark humour, irony, narconovela, violence, memory…”
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Humorous cognitive reappraisal: More benign humour and less "dark" humour is affiliated with more adaptive cognitive reappraisal strategies. by Corinna M Perchtold, Elisabeth M Weiss, Christian Rominger, Kurt Feyaerts, Willibald Ruch, Andreas Fink, Ilona Papousek

“…The opposite seems to be true for malicious, or "dark" humour. The introduced behavioural approach to the analysis of humorous cognitive reappraisal may prove useful also in future related research.…”
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Přijde gestapák na inspekci: K pojmům komika a (černý) humor nejen u Vladimíra Boreckého by Ondřej Vinš

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Funny as hell: The functions of humour during and after genocide by Uğur Ümit Üngör, Valerie Amandine Verkerke

“…The history of genocide is replete with various humorous treatments by different actors with distinctive objectives. This type of dark humour treats the topic, which is usually enveloped with solemnity, in a satirical manner. …”
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Black Humor on the Film Screen: From Folk to Popular Culture by Lada Stevanović

“…One path is literary and goes back to comedies by Branislav Nušić - The bereaved family and The deceased, while the other leads to the whole genre of films with the dark humour that has developed since the 1960s in Europe and the USA.  …”
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Black Humor on the Film Screen: From Folk to Popular Culture by Lada Stevanović

“…One path is literary and goes back to comedies by Branislav Nušić - The bereaved family and The deceased, while the other leads to the whole genre of films with the dark humour that has developed since the 1960s in Europe and the USA.  …”
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Black Humor on the Film Screen: From Folk to Popular Culture by Lada Stevanović

“…One path is literary and goes back to comedies by Branislav Nušić - The bereaved family and The deceased, while the other leads to the whole genre of films with the dark humour that has developed since the 1960s in Europe and the USA.  …”
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Creating the world of such is life by Foong, Hannah Chen Min

“…Being a black comedy, the production design team aims to bring out the core of dark humour and satire through its environment and characters. …”
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The Humour-Pathos Link from Late-Victorian Aestheticism to Modernism and After in British Literature by Ioana Zirra

“…The modernist genial humour of Eliot’s 1939 Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats is contrasted with Tom Stoppard’s in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) and with the dark humour closer to pathos in The Life and Songs of the Crow (1970) by Ted Hughes.…”
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« The Brighter and more cheerful it is, the more it hurts » : l’inquiétante noirceur des comédies de Martin Crimp by Aloysia Rousseau

“…Martin Crimp thus revitalises the age-old genre of comedy, adopting its form while at the same time denouncing it as obsolete. Dark humour is at its fiercest, arousing self-conscious identification rather than alienation.…”
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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA / by Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927, author 555270

“…With its pervading atmosphere of menace, tinged with dark humour, The Phantom of the Opera (1910) offers a unique mix of Gothic horror and tragic romance that has inspired film, stage and literature since its publication.…”

Translation of Superheroes’ Names from English into Lithuanian in the Animated Series "The Venture Bros." by Lina Kulikauskaitė, Nijolė Maskaliūnienė

“…In the article the focus is on the translation of superheroes’ names in the subtitles of the first seven episodes of The Venture Bros., a dark humour cartoon parody of the superhero genre. The aim is to see what translation strategies were used for their translation from English into Lithuanian. …”
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Love, death and laughter in the city of different angels: S.P. Somtow’s Bangkok Gothic by Katarzyna Ancuta

“…This paper focuses on the novel’s comic dimension and discusses Somtow’s use of dark humour and the Gothic grotesque as a strategy to exoticize Bangkok for foreign readers by simultaneously reinforcing and defying Western stereotypes of Bangkok as the Oriental city, once (in)famously described in the Longman dictionary as the city of temples and prostitutes (Independent, 6 July 1993). …”
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Franquin, Spirou, Lagaffe, Le Trombone illustré, Idées noires : De quelques exemples de folie en bande dessinée by Chris Reyns-Chikuma

“…From the adventures of the hero Spirou and his fanciful friend, Fantasio, published by a catholic publisher between the 1930s and 1950s in a magazine aimed at the family, to Gaston, the burlesque antihero who, in his own way, protests against the system of production which became hyper-controlling and rigid in the Dupuis family business in the 60s-70s, this critique lead to the “anarchist” gags of the magazine supplement Trombone illustré (quickly rejected by its publisher) and the dark humour of Idées noires in the 70s. Both of these two express the mortiferous madness of human beings and the Franquin’s nervous breakdowns. …”
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从关联理论看英式幽默字幕翻译 ：以英剧《神探夏洛克》为例 = An analysis of translation for British humour subtitles from the perspective of relevance theory : a case study of BBC’s Sherlock Holmes... by 倪玮忆 Gunawan, Arabella

“…British humour, with its cultural characteristics, has a reputation for being "dry" and "dark". Humour is classified under three categories: language humour, cultural humour and universal humour. …”
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