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Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema
Author
Maggie Hennefeld
Content
xiii + 352 pp., bibl., index
Publication date
2024
Publisher
New York: Columbia University Press
Description
Film, cultural, and social history and analysis that covers primarily 1870 to 1920.
Main subject
Film and Television
Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Social Criticism
ISBN
9780231213288 (cloth); 9780231213295 (pap.); 9780231559812 (ebook)
Citation
Hennefeld, Maggie.
Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Sylvia. Accessed June 16, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL3111.
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07-12-2024
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61.11 (2024), rev. 61-2996
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