The 1800s E4 - Maggie Hennefeld
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Maggie Hennefeld, Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has literally written the book(s) on early cinematic feminist humor. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812 and https://cup.columbia.edu/book/specters-of-slapstick-and-silent-film-comediennes/9780231179478 tackle...
show moreMaggie is also a curator of the 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray collection Cinema's First Nasty Women and co-director of Archives on Screen, Twin Cities. Her socials are:
Twitter: @magshenny
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hennefem/
Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/hennefem.bsky.social
Visit https://www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list to submit your own five favorites of the 1800s for a final tally in the season finale!
Films and resources mentioned:
- The Boxing Cats (1894) - William K.L. Dickson and William Heise
- The Cabbage Fairy (1896) - Alice Guy-Blaché
- The Cabbage Fairy (1900) - Alice Guy-Blaché
- Something Good/Negro Kiss (1898) - William Selig
- The Four Troublesome Heads (1898) - Georges Méliès
- The Dairy Maid's Revenge (1899) - Frank S. Armitage
- Fredd Ott's Sneeze (1894) - William K.L. Dickson
- Carmencita (1894) - William K.L. Dickson
- Sioux Ghost Dance (1894) - William K.L. Dickson
- Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018) - Pamela B. Green
- Pierrette's Escapades (1900) - Alice Guy-Blaché
- Algie, the Miner (1912) - Alice Guy-Blaché, Harry Schenk, and Edward Warren
- The Pill Pounder (1923) - Gregory La Cava
- Madame's Cravings (1907) - Alice Guy-Blaché
- Moonlight (2016) - Barry Jenkins
- If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) - Barry Jenkins
- Mary Jane's Mishap (1903) - George Albert Smith
- The Man with the Rubber Head (1901) - Georges Méliès
- The Big Swallow (1901) - James Williamson
- Léontine's Battery (1910) - Unknown
- "Do You Believe in Fairies? Cabbages, Victorian Memes, and the Birth of Cinema: Seeing Sapphic Sexuality in the Silent Era" - Kiki Loveday
- Women Film Pioneers Project
- "The Cinema of Racialized Attraction(s): The John C. Rice–May Irwin Kiss and Something Good—Negro Kiss" - Allyson Nadia Field
- "The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde" - Tom Gunning
- Silent London
- The Loft Cinema
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