Free Download Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Film and Culture Series) by Maggie Hennefeld
English | March 19, 2024 | ISBN: 023121328X, 0231213298 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 11.5 MB
Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate―or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would have us believe. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of women’s risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy?
