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Cinema's First Nasty Women
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Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick mayhem, and suggestive gender play. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/ https://kinolorber.com/product/cinemas-fi
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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · Nov 14
In honor of @manohladargis.bsky.social joining Bluesky, we're sharing our *proudest moment* in the history of Cinema's First Nasty Women, which is when she wrote this brilliant, generous, and galvanizing review in the NY Times!! 🥰🎞️🎉📀
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Rewriting Women Back Into Film History (Published 2022)
In shorts from the early 20th century, the stars defy gender stereotypes that would later be standard in Hollywood, as a museum series and box set make clear.
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 5h
Today Léontine will return to the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone!! 🤩 She raises a ruckus as Musidora's cook in a parody of Les Vampires directed by Feuillade -- followed by Jane Gaines' lecture on Imagining silent film history with only women..... ⁉️🎞️
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 1d
The irresistible benefits of becoming a @wfhinetwork.bsky.social member!!! 🎞️😍 www.wfhi.org
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 1d
Day three at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and it was full-on with "Pink Tea Talking" and "little mites of wonderment"...

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Electric Gypsy… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Day 3
Let’s start at the big finish shall we, let’s begin with the pure diva pomp and circumstance of Italia Almirante Manzini playing the Queen...
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 1d
I was delighted to chat with Allison Tyra on @infinite-women.com about 'Death by Laughter,' Léontine, and feminist comedy as a catalyst for solidarity & resistance!! ❤️@columbiaup.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 1d
If you're not following @silentlondon.bsky.social's daily recaps of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, then you're doing it all wrong! (But it's not too late!!) Day 3 just dropped. 🎞️🎶😍

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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 3
Monday finished with a zinger. I mean a Zingari. Italia Almirante Manzini wowed the Verdi as Wilejka, a heavy-lidded beauty with great hair, but in this case as a heavy-lidded beautiful Gypsy sheph…
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 1d
Day three of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto was packed with Drama with a capital D. For Diva. silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/06/l...
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 3
Monday finished with a zinger. I mean a Zingari. Italia Almirante Manzini wowed the Verdi as Wilejka, a heavy-lidded beauty with great hair, but in this case as a heavy-lidded beautiful Gypsy sheph…
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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 2d
Bring it on, Monday… by Linda Darnell.
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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 2d
This week on the podcast: @hennefem.bsky.social, author of ⁠Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria & Early Cinema⁠, talks women's laughter & film, & how archives of feminist film comedy can inspire creativity & resistance in our political culture today. 1/3
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Dr Maggie Hennefeld on women's comedy and laughter in film and activism by Infinite Women
Maggie Hennefeld is a Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and author of Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria & Early Cinema. Maggie is also affiliated w...
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 2d
A specter is haunting the #GCM44 book fair in Pordenone!! (Apparently Death by Laughter already sold out) 🎞️👻
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 2d
East Lynne, Chaplinmania, paper films and more – Sunday at Pordenone silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/05/l...
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 2
Is it still a pathetic fallacy even if the weather is true but the drama is not? As I set out to begin my day with some major melodrama, there was heavy weather in the skies above Pordenone also. W…
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 2d
Day two in Pordenone was eventful…

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Love and Death… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Edition 44, Day Two
Harry Solter on the job. Photo from Biograph Project showing restored image on right vs old paper copy... Oh, Willie, my child dead, dead,...
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PaulAJoyce @paulajoyce.bsky.social · 3d
And we’re off at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto #44! #SilentFilm

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The march begins… Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Edition 44, Day One
In Pordenone we travel through distance as well as time, moving across countries and continents as much as in style and substance, all of ...
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 6d
San Francisco Silent Film Festival program is out! Nov 12-16 at the Orinda Theater. I’ll be introducing Anna Ondry in SAXOPHONE SUZY. Come join me! #FilmSky

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 5d
Almost time for the Giornate del Cinema Muto / #SilentFilm Festival!!! If you can't make the journey to Pordenone, friendly reminder that there are daily screenings online with beautiful music. 🎞️🎶

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ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION
4 > 11 ottobre 2025
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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 3d
It begins… silentlondon.co.uk/2025/10/04/l...
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 1
The Giornate dawned with grey skies but good times, a respite from Storm Amy and all the rest of the week’s turbulence, a day of pretty views and outbreaks escapism. Many of us were just grateful t…
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 8d
A quick post before the end of #SilentMovieDay encouraging you to watch more silent films directed by women. There’s a ton of them and they’re great!
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Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social · 7d
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐅𝐏𝐏: Bart G. Moens's overview essay "Casting Shadows: Women’s Work at the Projection Department of Maison de la Bonne Presse (1895-1920)."
Casting Shadows: Women’s Work at the Projection Department of Maison de la Bonne Presse (1895-1920) – Women Film Pioneers Project
Women Film Pioneers Project is a scholarly resource exploring women’s global involvement at all levels of film production during the silent film era.
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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · 12d
[Queen Kelly is] “a spectacular, fanatically ornamental, yet harrowing masterwork of erotic ecstasies and horrors.” - Richard Brody, New Yorker Magazine www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 7d
I'm extremely honored that "Death by Laughter" made the shortlist for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social Book Prize!!! ☺️🎊 CONGRATS to the winners & fellow short-listers--such beautiful research here that I can't wait to read!! 📚@columbiaup.bsky.social

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 7d
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 8d
Happy Silent Movie Day!!! Today we celebrate with BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY, which will play in a double-feature w/ Alla Nazimova's SALOMÉ at @iucinema.bsky.social tonight!! 🎞️🎶 I recorded an intro that will be archived on YouTube after the screening.

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 9d
We're chuffed to participate in #SilentMovieDay with this special screening of BREAKING PLATES AND SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY at @iucinema.bsky.social!!! It will screen in a feminist double-bill w/ Alla Nazimova's SALOMÉ. 😍🎞🎶

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Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy - Silent Movie Day 2025!
Join us for an unforgettable celebration of Silent Movie Day 2025 with a bold and boundary-pushing double feature, beginning at the IU Libraries Mo...
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 11d
Great line-up for the Silent Film Festival in Bruges this week!!! Including guest intros by @wfhinetwork.bsky.social Prez @katesac.bsky.social & live music by Maud Nelissen, Hilde Nash, Daan van den Hurk, & Kabir Khan. 😍🎶🎞️

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 13d
If you're heading to the German Studies Association Conference this weekend, *don't miss* our sisters Mary Hennessy & Molly Harrabin presenting on "Weimar Cinema's Nasty Women"!!! 😍🎊🎞️ @mharrabin.bsky.social @g-s-s-n.bsky.social
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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 14d
Get dressed for *chaos* 🎩🧨 and don't miss the UCLA David C. Copley Lecture, which this year will be delivered by everybody's favorite Nasty Women trifecta: Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social & @laurah.bsky.social at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto!! 🎞️ www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/calendari...
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