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Comedy Essays

Comedy, Comedy Essays, Cult Classic, personal essay

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Cult Classic Series: The Ambiguous Queerness of Female Friendship in Buddy Films

by Robyn Bacon

September 29, 2022

Cinema Femme will be bringing you essays written by women and non-binary people about films that are cult classics and how they are impacting our world today. Today we feature

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Comedy Essays, Sexual Assault Awareness

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Pouring myself a cup of ambition: ‘9 to 5’ meets #MeToo

by Rebecca Martin

January 2, 2021

Feature posted November 2019, bringing our feature back for Dolly Parton’s birthday! Before #MeToo there was “9 to 5.” It wasn’t a hashtag, but it was a movement nonetheless. Dolly

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Comedy Essays, personal essay

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‘Clueless’ broke down barriers and paved the way for today’s comedies

by Jaylan Salah

December 17, 2019

At the end, "Clueless" is both reflective and ahead of its time. It implants the image of the modern woman of the nineties, rebelling against the clean-shaven stereotypical second-wave feminists
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Comedy Essays

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‘Girls Trip’: a dose of Black Girl Magic

by Marjorie H. Morgan

December 16, 2019

"Girls Trip" is a film that highlights and celebrates Black womanhood in a variety of forms. This includes a honour roll call of Black excellence with people like Iyanla Vanzant,
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Comedy Essays

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How I learned to stop worrying and have Melissa McCarthy in ‘Bridesmaids’ slap some sense in to me

by Alyse McGuigan

August 30, 2019

The first time I watched "Bridesmaids" (2011), I remember laughing so hard I couldn't breathe, specifically during the bathroom scene where the pristine atmosphere of a dress store filled with
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Comedy Essays, personal essay

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‘The Office’: A Comedy of Love

by Kana Felix

August 29, 2019

There is a rare moment of character revelation, in the popular American sitcom (first adapted from the original British show) “The Office,” when Michael Scott, says this about Pam, the

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Comedy Essays

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The Bend and Snap, works every time: an essay on ‘Legally Blonde’

by Amy Wasney

August 28, 2019

Elle Woods spent so much of her life playing by the rules that had been laid out for her, bending under the weight of what society wanted her to be.
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Comedy Essays

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Chosen ‘Family’

by Danielle Acton

July 18, 2019

Family is about the lengths you will go to listen and hear others, not just the blood bonds that you have. Kate and Maddie are each other's chosen family, and
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Comedy Essays

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‘Booksmart’: Class of Gen Z

by Danielle Acton

May 29, 2019

Throw a reunion if you've graduated within the last ten years because "Booksmart" is the most accurate depiction of what it's like to be a high schooler in the 2010s.
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Comedy Essays

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Cinema Femme Comedy Issue — Editor’s Letter

by Rebecca Martin

May 27, 2019

With our fifth issue, the Comedy issue, we wanted to honor and celebrate iconic films and TV shows that have changed the face of comedy. There has been so many

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