Comedy of Non-Belonging
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.166
Outside and Inside > Keaton's Danger
Theoretical move: The passage argues that Keaton's comedy, by universalizing the failure-to-belong, paradoxically generates a specific form of racism: it cannot distinguish between the insider's structural non-belonging and the genuine exclusion of racialized others, revealing that his cinematic project's radicality and its ideological blind spot share the same root.
When his films show that the insider is at once an outsider, that belonging also entails a failure to belong, they sometimes have recourse to racist images in order to convey the outside.