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Sig Team

Jun 23, 20201 min read

New Essay by Maggie Hennefeld on the link between Early Cinema, Contagion, and Laughter

Check out a new article in the La Review of Books from the always brilliant Maggie Hennefeld. ---------------------------- THERE WAS NO...

Sig Team

May 27, 20203 min read

Guest Post: Bill Costanzo on Transnational Comedic Film Research

Today we have a special post from Bill Costanzo, one of our most active SIG members! If you didn't already know, he is a SUNY...

Sig Team

May 19, 20205 min read

Guest Post: Grad Student Essay Contest Prize Winner Aju James

Today, we're happy to bring you a guest post by Aju James, our third annual Grad Student Essay Prize Winner! In this post, Aju gives an...

Sig Team

May 18, 20201 min read

Announcing: SIG Summer Reading Club!

Presented by the SIG steering committee and spearheaded by Pete Kunze and Steph Brown - we're happy to announce a summer (and beyond if...

Stephanie Brown

Jul 20, 20181 min read

Issue Index: Nanette

For this Issue Index, I'm linking to a crowd-sourced syllabus that I've been helping with this week. The Netflix special, Nanette,...

Stephanie Brown

May 14, 20187 min read

Issue Index: Michelle Wolf

In 1962, women reporters were first allowed to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner. A mere 30 years later, Paula Poundstone...

Kate Russell

May 1, 20183 min read

Guest Blog: Kate Russell Discusses her Essay on the Nonhuman Animal in Comedic Films (with GIFs!)

This is a guest post from the winner of our inaugural Graduate Student Essay Contest on her writing process, paper inspiration, and...

Stephanie Brown

Apr 16, 20188 min read

Field Trip Notes from a Catastrophe

An Oral History of the SCMS 2018 Comedy Field Trip Photo by Bill Ward, CC License Every year at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies...

Annie Berke

Mar 26, 20189 min read

Can Improv Comedy Provide Models for Writing Pedagogy? (Yes, and…)

Everyone has periods of their lives that they regret. Some of us have hurt the ones we love, while others did improvisational comedy in...

Comedy and Humor Studies