In our final episode of 2017, we feature an interview with outgoing Cinema Journal editor Will Brooker addressing the past and future of the Society for Cinema Studies’ journal. In addition, we feature an interview with Maggie Hennefeld on her work as co-chair of the Comedy and Humor Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SIG) and her upcoming book Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes.

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News & Notes

2017 British TV Christmas special guide

BBC Radio 4 report on Christmas TV featuring Brett Mills

Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees

Guardian review of Judi Dench: My Passion for Trees

Interview with Will Brooker

Will Brooker’s page at Kingston University

Will’s Wikipedia page

Episode 1 of Aca-Media

Photo Gallery: How Presidents Age in Office

Will Before (at SCMS March 2013, his first conference as CJ editor)

Will After (at Aca-Media interview November 2017)

Cinema Journal editors and editorial board

Will’s graphic novel My So-Called Secret Identity

Will’s book Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe

Will on Twitter

Chris on Twitter

“How to Defeat a Twitter Addiction”

Cinema Journal 57.1 cover image

Cinema Journal Name Change discussion forum

Interview with Maggie Hennefeld

Maggie Hennefeld, faculty profile and publications

Maggie’s book: Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

Overview of the Philosophy of Laughter Theories

Bahktin’s Rabelais and his World

Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy (New book alert!) Edited by Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant

Satire and Dissent by Amber Day

Satire on TV in the Post-Network Era

Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America by Bambi Haggins

All Joking Aside: American Humor and its Discontents by Rebecca Krefting

Critical Inquiry Special Issue: Comedy Has Issues

Feminist Media Histories: Gender and Comedy

Story about woman who laughed at Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing

(Note, the case has since been dismissed)

The Onion

Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film by Kristen Anderson Wagner

Comedy and Humor Studies SIG links
Website
Twitter
Facebook
Grad Student Essay Prize

Wrap-Up

Brett Mills’ page at University of East Anglia

Life in the United Kingdom: A guide for new residents, 3rd Edition

Life in the United Kingdom section on comedy

Newsnight, “Satire Serves the Establishment”

Aca-Media Episode 33, featuring Bill’s interview with Kirk Combe and Sangeet Kumar on political satire media in an international context

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