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and--finally--considering the act of storytelling itself
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780143106999
talk-weary women have successfully diverted themselves with all the wonderfully vagrant stuff of life
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Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes Format:Paperback and--finally--considering the act of storytellingWomen 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
