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04181aam a2200505 i 4500 001 BFB724CA840811E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 171113s2018 nyua bq 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017047038 020 $a 0231179472 020 $a 9780231179478 020 $a 0231179464 020 $a 9780231179461 035 $a (OCoLC)1013721339 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d NYP $d OBE $d TYC $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1995.9.C55 $b H46 2018 082 00 $a 791.43/617 $2 23 100 1 $a Hennefeld, Maggie, $d 1984- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018003619 245 10 $a Specters of slapstick & silent film comediennes / $c Maggie Hennefeld. 246 3 $a Specters of slapstick and silent film comediennes 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xvii, 358 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Film and culture series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-318), filmography (pages 239-275), and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Part 1. Early film combustion. Early cinema and the comedy of the female catastrophe -- Female combustion and feminist film historiography -- Part 2. Transitional film metamorphosis. Slapstick comediennes in transitional cinema : between body and medium -- The geopolitics of the transitional film comedy : American Vitagraph versus French PatheÌ freÌres -- D.W. Griffith's slapstick comediennes : female corporeality and narrative film storytelling -- Part 3. Feminist slapstick politics. Film comedy aesthetics and suffrategette social politics -- Radical militancy and slapstick political violence -- Postscript : haunted laughter at late comediennes. 520 $a "In Specters of Slapstick, Hennefeld focuses on silent film comediennes and the function of the female body in early slapstick. Laughter is a kind of grating against the absurdity of society, argues Hennefeld. But while male bodies in slapstick tried to violently fight or "escape" their surroundings--slipping on a banana peel and falling, for example--female bodies exhibited a fluidity that reflected an attempt to morph into their changing surroundings. In one slapstick film, a maid humorously cuts off her limbs in order to finish all her household chores in time. In others, women transform into fairies or spiders; all underscore an attempt to assimilate their bodies to the demands of changing environments. This eradicates the traditional opposition between performer and audience, making the "laughing spectator" a more active part of the film experience. As Hennefeld analyzes early slapstick film historiography in light of this theory, she examines larger themes like the evolution of gender, the body, and their place in cinematic comedy"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Comedy films $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101229 650 0 $a Silent films $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111665 650 0 $a Women comedians. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147507 650 0 $a Women in motion pictures. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147593 650 0 $a Human body in motion pictures. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98003868 650 0 $a Sex role in motion pictures. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89005585 650 7 $a Comedy films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00869095 650 7 $a Human body in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01899764 650 7 $a Sex role in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114654 650 7 $a Silent films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01118542 650 7 $a Women comedians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177507 650 7 $a Women in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177931 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 830 0 $a Film and culture. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92059833 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116055028.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BFB724CA840811E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search