Maggie Hennefeld

Bio

Maggie Hennefeld is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature and McKnight Presidential Fellow at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (2018) and the coeditor of Cultural Critique as well as Unwatchable (2019) and Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence (2020). You can find her on Twitter @magshenny.

Contributions

Feminist Catastrophe Against Disaster Patriarchy: Curating Cinema’s First Nasty Women

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How many feminist scholars and archivists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? There is no punch line to this set-up. Instead, we have spent the past two years curating a four-disc DVD/Blu-ray set on “ Cinema’s First Nasty Women,” a project that features 99 films from over a dozen international archives spotlighting the unrealized histories of feminist revolt and hellraising rebellion. Launched by a series of screenings at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Giornate del Cinema Muto), our set...

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