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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Հիմնական հեղինակ: Hennefeld, Maggie, 1984- (Հեղինակ)
Ձևաչափ: Licensed eBooks
Լեզու:անգլերեն
Հրապարակվել է: New York Columbia University Press [2024]
Շարք:Film and culture.
Առցանց հասանելիություն:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/henn21328
Բովանդակություն:
  • 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

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