Tragedy Plus Time

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Research Article| June 01 2021 Tragedy Plus Time: A Conversation with Philip Scepanski Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná Bruno Guaraná is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at New York University. Originally from Recife, Brazil, he received his PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU, and his MA in Film from Columbia University. His current research explores negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian media. He is currently the Page Views Editor for Film Quarterly. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Philip Scepanski, Tragedy Plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. $50 hardcover. 280 pages. Film Quarterly (2021) 74 (4): 83–89. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.74.4.83 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Bruno Guaraná; Tragedy Plus Time: A Conversation with Philip Scepanski. Film Quarterly 1 June 2021; 74 (4): 83–89. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.74.4.83 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentFilm Quarterly Search BOOK DATA Philip Scepanski, Tragedy Plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. $50 hardcover. 280 pages. Season 8 of Friends (NBC, 1994–2004) included an episode in which Monica and Chandler, en route to their honeymoon, are detained by TSA agents after Chandler mocks a TSA sign forbidding jokes about bombs. By the time the episode aired on October 11, 2001, however, the scene had been excised, its humor nullified in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. The scene’s later resurrection as bonus material for a DVD box set—and, inevitably, on video and social-media platforms—reflects the sort of time-sensitive relationship between comedy and context that Philip Scepanski explores in Tragedy Plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy. The book’s title refers to the period of latency that follows a tragedy before comedy is “allowed”—or feels comfortable enough—to address the ensuing trauma, and potentially redefine... You do not currently have access to this content.