Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes by Maggie Hennefeld

Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

Film and Culture Series

Maggie Hennefeld

384 pages first pub 2018 (view editions)

challenging funny reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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