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Death by Laughter
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4686129Death by Laughterhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/death-by-laughter-9780231559812/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4328463/image.jpg?v=638744364093600000610677MXNColumbia University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fateor so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would have us believe. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of womens risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy?</p><p>Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of hysterical laughter, exploring how womens amusement has been theorized and demonized, suppressed and exploited. In nineteenth-century medicine and culture, hysteria was an ailment that afflicted unruly women on the cusp of emotional or nervous breakdown. Cinema, Hennefeld argues, made it possible for women to laugh outrageously as never before, with irreversible social and political consequences. As female enjoyment became a surefire promise of profitability, alarmist tales of women laughing themselves to death epitomized the tension between subversive pleasure and its violent repression.</p><p>Hennefeld traces the social politics of womens laughter from the heyday of nineteenth-century sentimentalism to the collective euphoria of early film spectatorship, traversing contagious dancing outbreaks, hysteria photography, madwomens cackling, cinematic close-ups, and screenings of slapstick movies in mental asylums. Placing little-known silent films and an archive of remarkable, often unusual texts in conversation with affect theory, comedy studies, and feminist film theory, this book makes a timely case for the power of hysterical laughter to change the world.</p>...4427998Death by Laughter610677https://www.gandhi.com.mx/death-by-laughter-9780231559812/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4328463/image.jpg?v=638744364093600000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249780231559812_W3siaWQiOiIyMzc0ZWY0Yi0xMDdlLTQ5YmYtOWYwMC05MDQxNDZlNGY5N2MiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjY3NywiZGlzY291bnQiOjY3LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjYxMCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780231559812_<p>Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fateor so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would have us believe. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of womens risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy?</p><p>Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of hysterical laughter, exploring how womens amusement has been theorized and demonized, suppressed and exploited. In nineteenth-century medicine and culture, hysteria was an ailment that afflicted unruly women on the cusp of emotional or nervous breakdown. Cinema, Hennefeld argues, made it possible for women to laugh outrageously as never before, with irreversible social and political consequences. As female enjoyment became a surefire promise of profitability, alarmist tales of women laughing themselves to death epitomized the tension between subversive pleasure and its violent repression.</p><p>Hennefeld traces the social politics of womens laughter from the heyday of nineteenth-century sentimentalism to the collective euphoria of early film spectatorship, traversing contagious dancing outbreaks, hysteria photography, madwomens cackling, cinematic close-ups, and screenings of slapstick movies in mental asylums. Placing little-known silent films and an archive of remarkable, often unusual texts in conversation with affect theory, comedy studies, and feminist film theory, this book makes a timely case for the power of hysterical laughter to change the world.</p>...9780231559812_Columbia University Presslibro_electonico_9780231559812_9780231559812Maggie HennefeldInglésMéxico2024-03-11T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram30-epub-789ac779-3ee9-4659-901f-8a571bce124a.epub2024-03-19T00:00:00+00:00Columbia University Press