[Inter]sections 28 (2025)

This special issue on “Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture” was co-edited by Roxana Oltean, Dragoș Manea, Dana Mihăilescu, and Mihaela Precup (American Studies Program, University of Bucharest).

LAUGHING IN THE FACE OF EVIL: HUMOROUS PERSPECTIVES ON PERPETRATORS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE

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Jennifer Caplan. Of Stooges, Springtime, and Stielhandgranates: Jewish Comedic Representations of Hitler

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Patrícia Sá. Robert Rodríguez’s From Dusk till Dawn (1996) and the Monstrous Caricatures at the End of the Road

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Nisan Karaca Odabasi. Humorous Melodrama in The Green Mile (1999)

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