Word: absurdist
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...brains, shooting, and general goopy splattering all around, and the result is, above all, ridiculous. And that’s exactly what makes it so fantastic, as Rodriguez understands. He mines the genre’s strict rules of convention, form, and plot for all their ludicrous, disjunctive, delightfully absurdist fun. It’s what makes “Planet Terror” a good zombie-movie send up and not a really bad zombie snoozefest.Tarantino, on the other hand, flips the genre on its head instead of blissfully sending it up, over-reaching with a pretentious brand...
...Benjamin’s absurdist brand of humor was supplemented by recurring images present throughout the play in the actors’ costumes (designed by Gul N. Dogusan) and in the set (designed by Khadija Z. Carroll...
...Secret Lives of Umbrellas” has nothing to do with umbrellas. Nor does it deal with secret lives either. But the absurdist qualities of this original play by Jessica S. Benjamin ’07 were what caught the attention of director Dipika Guha during a read-through of the script in their playwriting class. Before last semester, Benjamin had never written or produced a play, and her only experience as an actor was in a sixth grade production of “Hamlet.” But when assigned to write a play as a final project...
Among other things, Love Without Hope is about duty of care: society's, for strangers like Mrs. Shoddy who hover beyond town fringes; and the reader's, for a character worthy of compassion and completion. Despite seemingly absurdist and sardonic elements, the novel is simpler and less fanciful than Hall's previous ones. It is set in 1983, when in N.S.W. there did reign a Department of, and Master in, Lunacy. And even today one doesn't have to travel far to find larger-than-life Country Women's Association presidents, murderous property developers or delusional district nurses. These...
...stereotype of stereotypes. The intention, the next day’s respectful but defiant Editor’s Note argued, was “to lampoon racism by showing it at its most outrageous. We embraced racist language in order to strangle it.” Like proponents of absurdist theater in the ’20s, the idea is to present to the audience something so outrageous that they are compelled to disagree with it, and in doing so, affirm their moral core...