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
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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Reposted by Maggie Hennefeld
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
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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...)
we all know the answer to that question.....
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
we all know the answer to that question.....
can something be genuinely utopian AND at the same time *not* high camp? i highly doubt it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
can something be genuinely utopian AND at the same time *not* high camp? i highly doubt it.
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!)
what is a *genuinely* utopian film? ....
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
what is a *genuinely* utopian film? ....
i don't! the 35mm print that screened in Minneapolis is from the Walker Art Center's collection -- the frame enlargement i posted is not from the print i just viewed. (i poached it from this new yorker article) -- www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Johnny Guitar”: One of the Greatest Westerns and the Furthest Extreme of the Hollywood System
Nicholas Ray’s movie, starring Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, is a theory of cinema in motion.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
i don't! the 35mm print that screened in Minneapolis is from the Walker Art Center's collection -- the frame enlargement i posted is not from the print i just viewed. (i poached it from this new yorker article) -- www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...