Re: Comedy and horror
 

Slightly off topic perhaps, but it seems to me that theory about comedy generally says as much if not more about horror, if only the comic terms are inverted. I haven't read it yet, but Jack Morgan's The Biology of Horror (2002) could be an example of this approach, I think?

In the field of contemporary sculpture, the works of Paul McCarthy seem to take place between comedy and angst.

http://www.kunstonline.dk/profil/pic...mccarthy_4.jpg

Re: Comedy and horror
 

There is an old saw, not sure where it came from, that comedy is about possibilities and tragedy is about limits. If we follow this line of thinking, then horror is more like comedy than it is like tragedy (in this way, at least). Horror, too, is about possibilities. :eek: