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
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...
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!
early 20th C female wrestling was a professional sport and popular vaudeville feature!
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November 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
early 20th C female wrestling was a professional sport and popular vaudeville feature!
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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!!
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
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!
i guess it also depends on whose utopia... would a nazi experience triumph of the will as a utopian film? (for my $, celine and julie go boating is pretty damn close!)
November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
i guess it also depends on whose utopia... would a nazi experience triumph of the will as a utopian film? (for my $, celine and julie go boating is pretty damn close!)
pure pleasure = joan in 35mm. 🎞️
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
pure pleasure = joan in 35mm. 🎞️
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Spotted in Reno, NV!!! 📚
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Spotted in Reno, NV!!! 📚
I'm excited for this FEMINIST COMEDY marathon at UN-Reno on Fri!! I'll be presenting some new research on archival cinema, followed by a @nastysilents.bsky.social screening of "Breaking Plates & Smashing the Patriarchy"! Come for the comedy, stay for the comradery. 🎞🧯
events.unr.edu/event/femini...
events.unr.edu/event/femini...
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I'm excited for this FEMINIST COMEDY marathon at UN-Reno on Fri!! I'll be presenting some new research on archival cinema, followed by a @nastysilents.bsky.social screening of "Breaking Plates & Smashing the Patriarchy"! Come for the comedy, stay for the comradery. 🎞🧯
events.unr.edu/event/femini...
events.unr.edu/event/femini...
northern lights 😍🌆
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
northern lights 😍🌆
Thanks everyone who came to our #SilentFilm screening of 7th Heaven at the Heights Theater -- w/ *rhapsodic* music by The Poor Nobodys!! 🎶😍
Stayed tuned to @archivesonscreen.org for announcements, including the full line-up for Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour (Feb 12-15, 2026)! 🎞📽
archivesonscreen.org
Stayed tuned to @archivesonscreen.org for announcements, including the full line-up for Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour (Feb 12-15, 2026)! 🎞📽
archivesonscreen.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Thanks everyone who came to our #SilentFilm screening of 7th Heaven at the Heights Theater -- w/ *rhapsodic* music by The Poor Nobodys!! 🎶😍
Stayed tuned to @archivesonscreen.org for announcements, including the full line-up for Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour (Feb 12-15, 2026)! 🎞📽
archivesonscreen.org
Stayed tuned to @archivesonscreen.org for announcements, including the full line-up for Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour (Feb 12-15, 2026)! 🎞📽
archivesonscreen.org
already obsessed. 😁
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
already obsessed. 😁
Join us on Sunday night for a special screening of MoMA's gorgeous new restoration of 7th Heaven (1927) with *live music* by The Poor Nobodys at the majestic Heights Theater in Minneapolis!!! 🎞️🎶❤️ @archivesonscreen.org
ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/588...
ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/588...
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Join us on Sunday night for a special screening of MoMA's gorgeous new restoration of 7th Heaven (1927) with *live music* by The Poor Nobodys at the majestic Heights Theater in Minneapolis!!! 🎞️🎶❤️ @archivesonscreen.org
ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/588...
ticketing.useast.veezi.com/purchase/588...
It's alive!!!! Issue 129 of @culturalcritique.bsky.social -- on "Mourning Without End" -- is now live via @projectmuse.bsky.social and @uminnpress.bsky.social. Very grateful to all the contributors! (I wrote about death and laughter.) 📚
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55881
muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55881
muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It's alive!!!! Issue 129 of @culturalcritique.bsky.social -- on "Mourning Without End" -- is now live via @projectmuse.bsky.social and @uminnpress.bsky.social. Very grateful to all the contributors! (I wrote about death and laughter.) 📚
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55881
muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55881
muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
MANILA — An important piece of Filipino history missing for almost 90 years and thought to be lost forever was just found in Belgium. “Diwata ng Karagatan” is now the oldest surviving Filipino film! 🎞️🎞️
www.abs-cbn.com/entertainmen...
www.abs-cbn.com/entertainmen...
November 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
MANILA — An important piece of Filipino history missing for almost 90 years and thought to be lost forever was just found in Belgium. “Diwata ng Karagatan” is now the oldest surviving Filipino film! 🎞️🎞️
www.abs-cbn.com/entertainmen...
www.abs-cbn.com/entertainmen...
It may be Noirvember, but I know what I'm watching tonight... 🎞️😼
November 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It may be Noirvember, but I know what I'm watching tonight... 🎞️😼
also, la grève des nourrices (1907) -- in our nasty women collection!
October 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
also, la grève des nourrices (1907) -- in our nasty women collection!
Coup Pour Coup (1972) -- a reenactment of a women-led wildcat strike at a textile factory.
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/coup...
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/coup...
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Coup Pour Coup (1972) -- a reenactment of a women-led wildcat strike at a textile factory.
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/coup...
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/coup...
For folks who went to Pordenone this year for Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (or watched the program online), what were *your favorite* films & screenings from the 44th edition?! 🎞️🎶
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October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For folks who went to Pordenone this year for Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (or watched the program online), what were *your favorite* films & screenings from the 44th edition?! 🎞️🎶
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/wp-content/u...
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/wp-content/u...
Hot off the press!! I was delighted to contribute this Blu-ray review of Wonder Dogs! to the new issue of FIAF's Journal of Film Preservation. 🐕🦺🎞💿 I'm usually a cat person, but couldn't resist the *siren bark* of these 23 dog-forward silent films w/ gorgeous music 🎶📀
www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/00...
www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/00...
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Hot off the press!! I was delighted to contribute this Blu-ray review of Wonder Dogs! to the new issue of FIAF's Journal of Film Preservation. 🐕🦺🎞💿 I'm usually a cat person, but couldn't resist the *siren bark* of these 23 dog-forward silent films w/ gorgeous music 🎶📀
www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/00...
www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/00...
I'm super honored that 'Death by Laughter' is a finalist for the Theatre Library Association's Richard Wall Award!! In esteemed company, long live film books! 🎉🎞️📚 @columbiaup.bsky.social
www.tla-online.org/awards/booka...
www.tla-online.org/awards/booka...
October 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm super honored that 'Death by Laughter' is a finalist for the Theatre Library Association's Richard Wall Award!! In esteemed company, long live film books! 🎉🎞️📚 @columbiaup.bsky.social
www.tla-online.org/awards/booka...
www.tla-online.org/awards/booka...