Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

Author/Contributor(s):	Hennefeld, Maggie
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	03/27/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes, Maggie Hennefeld examines little-known silent films that, she argues, provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century. Hennefeld shows how slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language and experimentation.