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

书目详细资料
主要作者: Hennefeld, Maggie, 1984- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: New York Columbia University Press [2024]
丛编:Film and culture.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/henn21328
书本目录:
  • 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