Specters of slapstick & silent film comediennes /

Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane's Misha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hennefeld, Maggie, 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Colección:Film and culture.
Temas:
Comedy films > History and criticism.
Silent films > History and criticism.
Women comedians.
Women in motion pictures.
Human body in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Films comiques > Histoire et critique.
Films muets > Histoire et critique.
Femmes comiques.
Femmes au cinéma.
Corps humain au cinéma.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Comedy films
Human body in motion pictures
Sex role in motion pictures
Silent films
Women comedians
Women in motion pictures
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early cinema and the comedy of the female catastrophe
  • Female combustion and feminist film historiography
  • Slapstick comediennes in transitional cinema: between body and medium
  • The geopolitics of the transition film comedy: American Vitagraph versus French Pathé frères
  • D.W. Griffith's slapstick comediennes: female corporeality and narrative film storytelling
  • Film comedy aesthetics and suffragette social politics
  • Radical militancy and slapstick and slapstick political violence.

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