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
'Have fun; be bold; find joy' (Deborah Jones) Australian Premiere of BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY in the gorgeous Art Gallery of NSW Sydney Cinémathèque, Sun August 30, 3pm. Entry FREE, but book: www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/eve... 🙏 nastysilents.bsky.social @kinolorber.com
Gregory Nava is coming to the Trylon next weekend to present his film EL NORTE. Don’t miss it! Grab your tickets now at www.trylon.org/film/el-nort...
EL NORTE in 4K with director Gregory Nava in person next weekend! When their mother and father are killed as political dissidents in Guatemala, teenagers Rosa (Gutiérrez) and Enrique (Villalpando) must endure the treacherous path to the United States. Tickets at www.trylon.org/film/el-nort...
The Golden Silent Films Podcast is back with THREE guests to dive into the history of the Bonn International Silent Film Festival and what attendees can look forward to this year! It’s Europe’s best silent film festival for a reason! @silentfilmbonn.bsky.social #silentfilm youtu.be/1J8eosaTWBw?...
The Bonn International Silent Film Festival - Germany's Silent Movie Destination
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*Many thanks* to @fuscowrites.bsky.social for this extremely generous and gorgeously written review of DEATH BY LAUGHTER!! Hot off the press in the new issue of American Literary History. ‼️📚🤣 @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
Maggie Hennefeld, Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema
Katherine Fusco; Maggie Hennefeld, Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema, American Literary History, Volume 38, Issue 3, 1 July 2026, Pages 1
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Don't forget, the deadline is TOMORROW!!!!
Cinema's First Nasty Women@nastysilents.bsky.social · 3w agoWe've been nominating LAUGHING GAS (1907) -- the joyfully anarchic, anti-racist silent film comedy starring Bertha Regustus -- every year! Please cast your vote for LAUGHING GAS! It's included in Cinema's First Nasty Women! 📀 More info below....
Australian Premiere of BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY at Sydney Cinémathèque, Art Gallery of NSW, Sun Aug 30, 3pm. A celebration of creative mayhem, feminist protest, slapstick rebellion and suggestive gender play with @nastysilents.bsky.social: www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
RE:VISION TICKETS ARE ON SALE! The full schedule is live: 14 screenings, 4 days, 18 countries, 11 decades of cinema, from Irish fantasy to Mexican midnight movies to American experimental film. SFFP Members save 20% on tickets, $50 on passes. https://filmpreserve.org/revision/
Your voice and your vote matter. Make a plan to vote or return your ballot by 8 PM today when polls close. You can find your polling location here: MNVotes.org
Don’t hesitate to come to the polls; DOJ monitors will be outside the 100-foot zone, you don’t have to talk, you also don’t have to freak out, if you see them talking to anyone before they vote (they can only do so after) or engaging otherwise, tell the precinct head judge. We’re trained to help.
@marymoriarty.bsky.social · last wk.“Our office is fully prepared to protect and defend your right to vote,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said. “Any reports of threats, harassment, or intimidation directed at voters or election workers will be reviewed and, if appropriate, prosecuted.” www.startribune.com/minnesota-of...
For this week’s Silent Sundays, I wrote about five silent films directed by women that I think should be added to the National Film Registry — an how you can nominate them before this year’s deadline, which is coming up soon!
Five Silent Films Directed By Women That Should Be Added To The National Film Registry
Silent Sundays: Silent Film Streaming Picks
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Another silent favorite of mine!
Cinema's First Nasty Women@nastysilents.bsky.social · 2w agoand LAUGHING GAS!!!!!
I will be popping my head out of maternity leave this Monday, Aug 10th at 12pm ET / 9am PT for this sizzling roundtable on TEACHING HUMOR IN POLITICALLY TURBULENT TIMES!!! 🃏🔥 *Please join us! Message me for the Zoom link.*
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer from Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
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instead of seeing this shit movie here are actually good movies opening this weekend:
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 2w ago"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
Visit the swanky new website for the Heights Theater and grab yourself a ticket for Giuseppe De Santis's BITTER RICE (1949), co-presented with the Italian Cultural Center. One show only! Wednesday, August 26, 7 PM More info and tickets at www.heightstheater.com/films-and-ev... 🇮🇹 🎞 🌾
Fuel for the task ahead: reviewing proofs for my forthcoming book. (It’s really happening 😳) @dukepress.bsky.social with coffee as my witness, I swear to have these back on time.
Dancing at my desk because of this review of THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY: "a superb book, impeccably researched, engagingly written – and incredibly insightful." therealmofsilence.com/2026/08/02/t...
(The Curse of) Queen Kelly (1929; US; Erich von Stroheim)
Many years ago, my old university was hosting a “film and philosophy” conference. Not having the interest or intellectual clout to submit a paper to deliver, I was nevertheless roped in to guide th…
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Phantasmagoric poster by Ben Krueger for the series FANTASMAS Y LUCHADORAS, August 28-30 at @trylon.org! Poster available for purchase at the box office. Tickets now on sale at www.trylon.org/film-series/....
Awesome work here by @cphiliphaines.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, and many others. And don’t sleep on @mitchrmurray.bsky.social’s essay about Percival Everett & the campus novel!
Maggie Hennefeld@hennefem.bsky.social · 3w agoThe summer issue of @culturalcritique.bsky.social -- on Marxism, Form & Futurity -- is live on @projectmuse.bsky.social!! muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283 @uminnpress.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social 📚‼️
The summer issue of @culturalcritique.bsky.social -- on Marxism, Form & Futurity -- is live on @projectmuse.bsky.social!! muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283 @uminnpress.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social 📚‼️
Happy Saturday #SilentFilm world! 🌇 It's only a NEW PODCAST ALERT! Our newest release features the very wonderful @katesac.bsky.social - film curator, scholar, and editor based in Amsterdam. 🎧️ Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/4Hbk... 🖥️ Read blog/transcript: hippfest.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/h...
HippCast Episode 37
“One of these days men are going to get over the fool idea that women have no brains…and quit getting insulted at the thought that a skirt-wearer can do their work quite as well as they can. And I …
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I was delighted to appear on the NitrateVille podcast this week to talk all about QUEEN KELLY soundcloud.com/user-3689635...
130: Pamela Hutchinson on The Curse of Queen Kelly • Rob Farr Presenting Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew
Pamela Hutchinson, author of The Curse of Queen Kelly • Rob Farr, author of Presenting Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew (72:12)
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A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
All the (silent film) news that's fit to blog!! With a shout-out to our recent demographic survey on WHO'S WATCHING SILENT CINEMA?! in @fiaf.bsky.social's Journal of Film Preservation. 😍🎞️🎶 www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/00...
JOURNAL OF FILM PRESERVATION #114, April 2026
Journal of Film Preservation, No. 114, April 2026
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Silent London@silentlondon.bsky.social · 3w agoNews! Read all about it! silentlondon.co.uk/2026/07/30/s...
