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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Maggie HennefeldPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231213288ISBN 10: 023121328 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 19 March 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsThis stunningly original and altogether insightful book had me in stitches. At times, I giggled quietly, and other times, I laughed out loud. But, time and time again, I was left with new and thought-provoking ideas while reading this side-splitting mash-up of film history, feminist theory, and cultural criticism. -- Matthew Solomon, author of <i>Méliès Boots</i> Just about everything in this book is a delight. Writing with ferocious wit and drawing from an extraordinary archive, Hennefeld historicizes the significance of laughter for gendered and racialized bodies in modern media culture. This is what feminist cultural theory and history looks like at its very best. -- Jennifer M. Bean, editor in chief of <i>Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal</i> This stunningly original and altogether insightful book had me in stitches. At times, I giggled quietly, and other times, I laughed out loud. But, time and time again, I was left with new and thought-provoking ideas while reading this side-splitting mash-up of film history, feminist theory, and cultural criticism. -- Matthew Solomon, author of <i>Méliès Boots</i> Death by Laughter is an astonishing and astonishingly rich plunge into the stormy waters of laughter. Focusing particularly on hysterical laughter in its political dimension, the book presents us with a remarkable amount of fascinating material, including the extremely interesting but almost forgotten archives of early cinema. Hennefeld navigates this material both boldly and carefully, masterfully relating it to our contemporary social, political, and cultural context. -- Alenka Zupančič, author of <i>What IS Sex?</i> "A ""Most Anticipated"" Book of 2024 * The Millions * Just about everything in this book is a delight. Writing with ferocious wit and drawing from an extraordinary archive, Hennefeld historicizes the significance of laughter for gendered and racialized bodies in modern media culture. This is what feminist cultural theory and history looks like at its very best. -- Jennifer M. Bean, editor in chief of <i>Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal</i> A tour de force of feminist historiography through cinema’s early archive of hysterical laughter! In a time of perpetual carnival, what promise can laughter still hold? Moving us beyond both capitalist gimmick and revolutionary excess, Hennefeld carefully excavates the affective cluster held in tension by a burst of laughter on the brink of death. -- Anca Parvulescu, author of <i>Laughter: Notes on a Passion</i> This stunningly original and altogether insightful book had me in stitches. At times, I giggled quietly, and other times, I laughed out loud. But, time and time again, I was left with new and thought-provoking ideas while reading this side-splitting mash-up of film history, feminist theory, and cultural criticism. -- Matthew Solomon, author of <i>Méliès Boots</i> Death by Laughter is an astonishing and astonishingly rich plunge into the stormy waters of laughter. Focusing particularly on hysterical laughter in its political dimension, the book presents us with a remarkable amount of fascinating material, including the extremely interesting but almost forgotten archives of early cinema. Hennefeld navigates this material both boldly and carefully, masterfully relating it to our contemporary social, political, and cultural context. -- Alenka Zupančič, author of <i>What IS Sex?</i>" Just about everything in this book is a delight. Writing with ferocious wit and drawing from an extraordinary archive, Hennefeld historicizes the significance of laughter for gendered and racialized bodies in modern media culture. This is what feminist cultural theory and history looks like at its very best. -- Jennifer M. Bean, editor in chief of <i>Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal</i> A tour de force of feminist historiography through cinema’s early archive of hysterical laughter! In a time of perpetual carnival, what promise can laughter still hold? Moving us beyond both capitalist gimmick and revolutionary excess, Hennefeld carefully excavates the affective cluster held in tension by a burst of laughter on the brink of death. -- Anca Parvulescu, author of <i>Laughter: Notes on a Passion</i> This stunningly original and altogether insightful book had me in stitches. At times, I giggled quietly, and other times, I laughed out loud. But, time and time again, I was left with new and thought-provoking ideas while reading this side-splitting mash-up of film history, feminist theory, and cultural criticism. -- Matthew Solomon, author of <i>Méliès Boots</i> Death by Laughter is an astonishing and astonishingly rich plunge into the stormy waters of laughter. Focusing particularly on hysterical laughter in its political dimension, the book presents us with a remarkable amount of fascinating material, including the extremely interesting but almost forgotten archives of early cinema. Hennefeld navigates this material both boldly and carefully, masterfully relating it to our contemporary social, political, and cultural context. -- Alenka Zupančič, author of <i>What IS Sex?</i> Author InformationMaggie Hennefeld is associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (Columbia, 2018), co-curator of the silent film collection Cinema’s First Nasty Women (2022), and coeditor of Unwatchable (2019) and Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence (2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |