Maggie Hennefeld
@hennefem.bsky.social
Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
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"DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" is alive!!!!! I'm extremely excited to see the book page & beautiful cover design up on the Columbia University Press website! It will be out in the world by March 2024. 🎞️🤣🎉
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i spent 10 yrs writing a book about women who died from laughing too hard. cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b...
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
i spent 10 yrs writing a book about women who died from laughing too hard. cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b...
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Thank you to @slashfilm.bsky.social for including CINEMA HER WAY in their gift guide.
www.slashfilm.com/2019350/holi...
www.slashfilm.com/2019350/holi...
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Thank you to @slashfilm.bsky.social for including CINEMA HER WAY in their gift guide.
www.slashfilm.com/2019350/holi...
www.slashfilm.com/2019350/holi...
if you haven't died from laughter by the end of the holiday weekend, you can give it another go via @columbiaup.bsky.social's Cyber Monday sale -- all books 50% off, 1 day only, Dec 1st, don't miss it!!! (hehehehehe....) 📚🤣☠️
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cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b...
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
if you haven't died from laughter by the end of the holiday weekend, you can give it another go via @columbiaup.bsky.social's Cyber Monday sale -- all books 50% off, 1 day only, Dec 1st, don't miss it!!! (hehehehehe....) 📚🤣☠️
cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b...
cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b...
post a famous bathroom scene:
MORAL (Willi Wolff, 1928) 🎞️🚽
flushing the evidence!
MORAL (Willi Wolff, 1928) 🎞️🚽
flushing the evidence!
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
post a famous bathroom scene:
MORAL (Willi Wolff, 1928) 🎞️🚽
flushing the evidence!
MORAL (Willi Wolff, 1928) 🎞️🚽
flushing the evidence!
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Magdalena Caballero (1925 – 2006) was a Mexican luchadora known as La Dama Enmascarada.
She was one of the pioneers of women's professional wrestling in Mexico, credited as the first Mexican National Women's Champion at a time when female wrestling was banned in Mexico City.
She was one of the pioneers of women's professional wrestling in Mexico, credited as the first Mexican National Women's Champion at a time when female wrestling was banned in Mexico City.
August 21, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Magdalena Caballero (1925 – 2006) was a Mexican luchadora known as La Dama Enmascarada.
She was one of the pioneers of women's professional wrestling in Mexico, credited as the first Mexican National Women's Champion at a time when female wrestling was banned in Mexico City.
She was one of the pioneers of women's professional wrestling in Mexico, credited as the first Mexican National Women's Champion at a time when female wrestling was banned in Mexico City.
our roundtable on BAD OBJECTS & STICKY FEELINGS is on theme for the 2026 edition!!
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
our roundtable on BAD OBJECTS & STICKY FEELINGS is on theme for the 2026 edition!!
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The cat is out of the bag! Cinema's First Nasty Women will return to @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social in Jan 2026, where we first launched this whole shebang!! BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY will screen with 3 short films by @karenpearlman.bsky.social! 🎊
www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/cinem...
www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/cinem...
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The cat is out of the bag! Cinema's First Nasty Women will return to @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social in Jan 2026, where we first launched this whole shebang!! BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY will screen with 3 short films by @karenpearlman.bsky.social! 🎊
www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/cinem...
www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/cinem...
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
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Delighted to have contributed to the new issue of Filmblatt with an Ossi Oswalda filmography that I curated with Mary Hennessy & Philipp Stiasny! The issue also features a brilliant essay by @hennefem.bsky.social on an unmade Oswalda film! Long live Ossi Oswalda!
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Delighted to have contributed to the new issue of Filmblatt with an Ossi Oswalda filmography that I curated with Mary Hennessy & Philipp Stiasny! The issue also features a brilliant essay by @hennefem.bsky.social on an unmade Oswalda film! Long live Ossi Oswalda!
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Advance copies of this beaut arrived today! Congrats to author @aurspiers.bsky.social!! Can’t wait for you all to read it.
www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...
www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...
Archiving the Past by Aurore Spiers - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Free article for Cultural Critique Special Issue: Mourning Without End: "Mourning Without End: A Start" by Cesare Casarino, Frieda Ekotto, Maggie Hennefeld, John Mowitt, and Simona Sawhney (muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...)
Project MUSE - Mourning Without End: A Start
muse.jhu.edu
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Free article for Cultural Critique Special Issue: Mourning Without End: "Mourning Without End: A Start" by Cesare Casarino, Frieda Ekotto, Maggie Hennefeld, John Mowitt, and Simona Sawhney (muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...)
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Three recent journal issues:
[email protected] 129, feat.
@breu.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social
-Buildings & Landscapes 32.2
-Environment, Space, Place 16.2 via @iasesp.bsky.social feat. @trepping.bsky.social @seandlawrence.bsky.social
All on @projectmuse.bsky.social
(1/3)
[email protected] 129, feat.
@breu.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social
-Buildings & Landscapes 32.2
-Environment, Space, Place 16.2 via @iasesp.bsky.social feat. @trepping.bsky.social @seandlawrence.bsky.social
All on @projectmuse.bsky.social
(1/3)
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Three recent journal issues:
[email protected] 129, feat.
@breu.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social
-Buildings & Landscapes 32.2
-Environment, Space, Place 16.2 via @iasesp.bsky.social feat. @trepping.bsky.social @seandlawrence.bsky.social
All on @projectmuse.bsky.social
(1/3)
[email protected] 129, feat.
@breu.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social
-Buildings & Landscapes 32.2
-Environment, Space, Place 16.2 via @iasesp.bsky.social feat. @trepping.bsky.social @seandlawrence.bsky.social
All on @projectmuse.bsky.social
(1/3)
New issue alert!! I was chuffed to write this short piece on Ossi Oswalda for FILMBLATT -- *many thanks* to Philipp Stiasny for translating to German. 🎞️
www.filmblatt.de/2025/11/22/f...
Lots of gems in here by @mharrabin.bsky.social et al + gorgeous images courtesy of @blomamsterdam.bsky.social!
www.filmblatt.de/2025/11/22/f...
Lots of gems in here by @mharrabin.bsky.social et al + gorgeous images courtesy of @blomamsterdam.bsky.social!
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New issue alert!! I was chuffed to write this short piece on Ossi Oswalda for FILMBLATT -- *many thanks* to Philipp Stiasny for translating to German. 🎞️
www.filmblatt.de/2025/11/22/f...
Lots of gems in here by @mharrabin.bsky.social et al + gorgeous images courtesy of @blomamsterdam.bsky.social!
www.filmblatt.de/2025/11/22/f...
Lots of gems in here by @mharrabin.bsky.social et al + gorgeous images courtesy of @blomamsterdam.bsky.social!
if this headline doesn't pique your interest, then the byline should do it! another fab piece by the always insightful @pamhutch.bsky.social on the legendary animal lover & celluloid chaos-maker, Michel Simon. 🎞️🐒
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Monkey soulmates and extraordinary talent: the man Charlie Chaplin called ‘the greatest actor in the world’
Michel Simon, who steals the show in Jean Vigo’s 1934 masterpiece L’Atalante, was a soft-faced, gravelly voiced clown capable of tremendous pathos – and total chaos
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
if this headline doesn't pique your interest, then the byline should do it! another fab piece by the always insightful @pamhutch.bsky.social on the legendary animal lover & celluloid chaos-maker, Michel Simon. 🎞️🐒
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
pure pleasure = joan in 35mm. 🎞️
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
pure pleasure = joan in 35mm. 🎞️
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SUNDAY 🚨🚨Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
Kennington Bioscope presents Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Kennington Bioscope presents a jam-packed day of special presentations, some rediscoveries and restorations and a few old favourites too.
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
SUNDAY 🚨🚨Silent Laughter Day » The Cinema Museum, London
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
Amazing programme of silent films at the Kennington Bioscope culminating in a re-premier of The Small Bachelor (1927) thought lost for *a century* with live NEIL BRAND! #silentfilm #extraordinary
www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/2025/kenning...
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Pre-order: www.dukeupress.edu/melodrama-as...
Melodrama as Provocateur
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November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Pre-order: www.dukeupress.edu/melodrama-as...
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This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"Cinema is not just moving pictures; it sets hope in motion!”
Pope blesses the religion of cinephilia. 🙏🎞️ www.indiewire.com/news/general...
Pope Leo XIV Gives His Blessing to the Theatrical Experience: ‘Cinemas and Theaters Are the Beating Hearts of Our Communities’
Pope Leo XIV championed cinema and the theatrical experience in remarks at the Vatican to representatives of the world of cinema.
www.indiewire.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"Cinema is not just moving pictures; it sets hope in motion!”
Pope blesses the religion of cinephilia. 🙏🎞️ www.indiewire.com/news/general...
Pope Leo XIV Gives His Blessing to the Theatrical Experience: ‘Cinemas and Theaters Are the Beating Hearts of Our Communities’
Pope Leo XIV championed cinema and the theatrical experience in remarks at the Vatican to representatives of the world of cinema.
www.indiewire.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Pope blesses the religion of cinephilia. 🙏🎞️ www.indiewire.com/news/general...
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@hennefem.bsky.social what at treat to have you here in person, as well as on the shelf!
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
@hennefem.bsky.social what at treat to have you here in person, as well as on the shelf!
Spotted in Reno, NV!!! 📚
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Spotted in Reno, NV!!! 📚