How Long to Read Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

How Long Does it Take to Read Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 9 minutes to read Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes by Maggie Hennefeld

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane’s Mishap, Jane on Strike, and The Consequences of Feminism, comediennes exhibit the tensions between joyful laughter and gendered violence. Slapstick comedy often celebrates the exaggeration of make-believe injury. Unlike male clowns, however, these comic actresses use slapstick antics as forms of feminist protest. They spontaneously combust while doing housework, disappear and reappear when sexually assaulted, or transform into men by eating magic seeds—and their absurd metamorphoses evoke the real-life predicaments of female identity in a changing modern world. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes reveals the gender politics of comedy and the comedic potentials of feminism through close consideration of hundreds of silent films. As Maggie Hennefeld argues, comedienne catastrophes provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century. At the same time, slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language. Women’s flexible physicality offered filmmakers blank slates for experimenting with the visual and social potentials of cinema. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes poses major challenges to the foundations of our ideas about slapstick comedy and film history, showing how this combustible genre blows open age-old debates about laughter, society, and gender politics.

How long is Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes?

Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes by Maggie Hennefeld is 358 pages long, and a total of 92,364 words.

This makes it 121% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 24 minutes to read Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes aloud.

What Reading Level is Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes?

Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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