Foreword: From "Stairway to Heaven" to "I Hate Mondays": Is Understanding sLaughter Essential?
Molly Merryman
Introduction: The Hilarity of Terror: Toward an Understanding of sLaughter
John A. Dowell, with Cynthia J. Miller
Part I: The Aesthetics and Mechanics of sLaughter, or Welcome to the Funhouse of Carnography-Please Watch Your Head
1. Troma-tized by Punk
Iain J.W. Ellis
2. "Must I Remind You of a Little Movie Called Deliverance?": sLaughter and the Postmodern Pastiche
Don Tresca
3. Phallic Noses, Blood-Filled Balloons, Exploding Popcorn, and Laughing-Gas-Squirting Flowers: Reading Images of the Evil Clown
Moritz Fink
4. The Mechanical sLaughterhouse: Horror, Humor, and Repetition in American Psycho and Fight Club
Colin Yeo
Part II: Bodies in the sLaughterhouse, or You Might Feel a Little Pinch
5. "Michael Eat Your Meat": Trauma, Satire, and Nostalgia in Bob Balaban's Parents
William Quiterio
6. Ha!/Aaah!: The Painful Relationship between Humor and Horror
David Misch
7. Igniting the Fuse of Destructive History: Nation and Ablation in the sLaughterhouse
Thomas Britt
8. sLaughter as Existential Epiphany
Ben Urish
Part III: Beyond Mere War, or So Long and Thanks for All the Jokes!
9. Surfing Fascists and the Masses: (Non-)Evolving Images of the Cinenazi
Ben Betka
10. In the UnDead of Winter: Humor and the Horrific in Dead Snow
Cynthia J. Miller
11. Too Soon?: Laughing at Disaster on the Cinematic Titanic
Ann Larabee
About the Editors
Notes on the Contributors