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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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 Mishap, Jane on Strike, and The Consequences of Feminism, comediennes exhibit the tensions between joyful laughter and gendered violence. Slapstick comedy often celebrates the exaggeration of make-believe injury. Unlike male clowns, however, these comic actresses use slapstick antics as forms of feminist protest. They spontaneously combust while doing housework, disappear and reappear when sexually assaulted, or transform into men by eating magic seeds--and their absurd metamorphoses evoke the real-life predicaments of female identity in a changing modern world. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes reveals the gender politics of comedy and the comedic potentials of feminism through close consideration of hundreds of silent films. As Maggie Hennefeld argues, comedienne catastrophes provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century. At the same time, slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language. Women's flexible physicality offered filmmakers blank slates for experimenting with the visual and social potentials of cinema. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes poses major challenges to the foundations of our ideas about slapstick comedy and film history, showing how this combustible genre blows open age-old debates about laughter, society, and gender politics. "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"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xvii, 358 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231547062 0231547064 |
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| spelling | Hennefeld, Maggie, 1984- author. Specters of slapstick & silent film comediennes / Maggie Hennefeld. Specters of slapstick and silent film comediennes New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (xvii, 358 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Film and culture series Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 Mishap, Jane on Strike, and The Consequences of Feminism, comediennes exhibit the tensions between joyful laughter and gendered violence. Slapstick comedy often celebrates the exaggeration of make-believe injury. Unlike male clowns, however, these comic actresses use slapstick antics as forms of feminist protest. They spontaneously combust while doing housework, disappear and reappear when sexually assaulted, or transform into men by eating magic seeds--and their absurd metamorphoses evoke the real-life predicaments of female identity in a changing modern world. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes reveals the gender politics of comedy and the comedic potentials of feminism through close consideration of hundreds of silent films. As Maggie Hennefeld argues, comedienne catastrophes provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century. At the same time, slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language. Women's flexible physicality offered filmmakers blank slates for experimenting with the visual and social potentials of cinema. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes poses major challenges to the foundations of our ideas about slapstick comedy and film history, showing how this combustible genre blows open age-old debates about laughter, society, and gender politics. "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"-- Provided by publisher 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. Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed June 8, 2020). In English. Comedy films History and criticism. Silent films History and criticism. Women comedians. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147507 Women in motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147593 Human body in motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98003868 Sex role in motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89005585 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. bisacsh Comedy films fast Human body in motion pictures fast Sex role in motion pictures fast Silent films fast Women comedians fast Women in motion pictures fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast Print version: Hennefeld, Maggie, 1984- Specters of slapstick & silent film comediennes. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] 9780231179461 (DLC) 2017047038 (OCoLC)1013721339 Film and culture. FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1725260 Volltext |
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| topic | Comedy films History and criticism. Silent films History and criticism. Women comedians. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147507 Women in motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147593 Human body in motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98003868 Sex role in motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89005585 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. bisacsh Comedy films fast Human body in motion pictures fast Sex role in motion pictures fast Silent films fast Women comedians fast Women in motion pictures fast |
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