[Stand-Up Comedy] – Romanian humor as a tool of resistance

[FHISKER]

Abstract: The roots of dark humour, absurd comedy and acid comments about society, considered to be characteristic for European movies, give the themes of some of the most important films of the Romanian “New Wave”. Here we concentrate on  three important sources of dark humor in Romanian films: the laugh-cry endemic in Romanian folklore; the tradition of Caragiale, where laugher is used at the limits of tragedy; the absurd theater of Ionescu, with its criticism of society.

Keywords: Romanian Movies; I.L. Caragiale; Eugen Ionescu; Romanian NewWave; Dark Humor. 

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