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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
Jun 23, 20201 min read
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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 27, 20203 min read
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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 19, 20205 min read
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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...

Sig Team
May 18, 20201 min read
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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
Jul 20, 20181 min read
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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...
Stephanie Brown
May 14, 20187 min read
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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...
Kate Russell
May 1, 20183 min read
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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...
Stephanie Brown
Apr 16, 20188 min read
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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...
Annie Berke
Mar 26, 20189 min read
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