Death by laughter female hysteria and early cinema
Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of "hysterical laughter," exploring how women's amusement has been theorized and demonized, suppressed and exploited
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2024]
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| Series: | Film and culture.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/henn21328 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1: Death by Laughter
- 1. Hysterical Laughter on the Brink of Enjoyment
- 2. Female Death by Laughter (Beyond Enjoyment)
- 3. An All Too Brief History of Laughter and Death
- Part 2: Female Hysteria
- 4. Gaslighting the Libido: Feminist Politics of Madness, Laughter, and Power
- 5. Laughter: The Forgotten Symptom
- 6. Mass Hysteria, Collective Laughter, and Affective Contagion
- Part 3: Early Cinema
- 7. Laughter Unleashed: Hysterical Women at the Movies
- 8. The Visual Cure? Moving Pictures as Neurotic Trigger and Therapeutic Instrument
- 9. From Mouth to Screen: Laughing Heads in the History of Film
- Conclusion: Laughter, Hysteria, Power-Then and Now
- Notes
- Index