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Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema
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Winner, 2025 Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book, Cinéma & Cie
Shortlisted, 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize
Shortlisted, 2025 Eiffel Award - Cinema Interpretation, Eiffel Foundation
Finalist, 2024 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association
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 th...
Shortlisted, 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize
Shortlisted, 2025 Eiffel Award - Cinema Interpretation, Eiffel Foundation
Finalist, 2024 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association
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 th...
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