S. Lundberg

Subversive laughter: Incongruity, relief, and cultural critique in Longlegs (2024) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

This chapter examines the enduring cultural impact of Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs and Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation, alongside Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, through the rarely examined angle of dark humour studies. While such films are not comedies broadly speaking, this chapter maintains that Demme and Perk...