{"id":2189,"date":"2015-04-01T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T21:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.library.reed.edu\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:26:58","slug":"imc-feature-modern-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/imc-feature-modern-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"IMC Feature &#8211; Modern Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary comedy film is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2014\/07\/the-completely-serious-decline-of-the-hollywood-comedy\/373914\/\">decline<\/a>.\u00a0 Big budget studios are reluctant to provide major financial backing due to poor overseas performance \u2013 the \u201clost in translation\u201d effect.\u00a0 Some funny films have fallen out of favor due to shifts in cultural sensitivity.\u00a0 Academia has long ignored the craft of cinematic comedy (an interesting thesis on the topic <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&amp;context=honors\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 When choosing to, the concentration is often limited to the canon of Chaplin\/Keaton\/Marx and other pioneers, with a focus on the foundations of comedy in the medium but rarely progressing into modern works.\u00a0 The recent explosion of television\/streaming content has pushed the majority of comedic talent towards the more lucrative, small-screen arena.\u00a0 Given these formidable challenges, it seems all the more important to highlight achievements of this genre, films that have provided endless ill-advised watercooler reenactments, quote fodder, and intellectual maturity stunting milestones.\u00a0 To that end, the IMC brings you the best contemporary comedy films in our collection, starting in 1970 because that is this author\u2019s arbitrary dividing point.\u00a0 But if you want a pseudo-cultural-generational definition, it\u2019s something about post-60s social commentary in 70s cultural ennui, combined with a paradigm shift in censorship, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/filmratings.com\/why.html\">U.S. film rating system of 1968<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/library.reed.edu\/services\/imcfiles\/imcfeaturescomedy.html\">Modern comedy films &#8211; 1970+<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary comedy film is in decline.\u00a0 Big budget studios are reluctant to provide major financial backing due to poor overseas performance \u2013 the \u201clost in translation\u201d effect.\u00a0 Some funny films have fallen out of favor due to shifts in cultural sensitivity.\u00a0 Academia has long ignored the craft of cinematic comedy (an interesting thesis on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":5035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/library-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}