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

書誌詳細
第一著者: Hennefeld, Maggie, 1984- (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: New York Columbia University Press [2024]
シリーズ:Film and culture.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/henn21328
目次:
  • 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