Die Fratze des Spaßmachers

Schwanebeck, Wieland

Die Fratze des Spaßmachers

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage	51
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage	64
dc.contributor.author	Schwanebeck, Wieland
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-23T14:34:23Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-23T14:34:23Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	In the history of its iconography, death has known many faces, including the laughing, grotesque grimace of the clown. The famous gravedigger scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the earliest texts to insist on a relationship between death and the merry fool who remains hidden behind the make-up. There has not been a shortage of 20th century texts and films to elaborate on this relationship, developing the image of the clown into that of a gruesome, terrifying reminder of transience and an emblem of death in the process. Within popular culture, the demonic clowns appear to outnumber the traditional ones these days, and it is the purpose of this essay to trace some of these jesters in different generic contexts and to examine their relationship to underlying psychological phenomena.
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/740
dc.language.iso	ger
dc.publishedIn	Bochum
dc.publisher	Projektverlag
dc.relation.editor	Hoffstadt, Christian F.
dc.relation.editor	Möller, Melanie
dc.relation.editor	Müller, Sabine
dc.relation.ispartof	Mord und Totlach
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Komik und Gewalt; 6
dc.rights	L::The Stacks License
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:791
dc.subject.field	americanstudies
dc.subject.field	filmstudies
dc.title	Die Fratze des Spaßmachers
dc.type	anthologyArticle
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