Women in the Workforce Film Series: “Shoes” screening

Discussion for the 1916 film, Shoes, will be led by Dr. Maggie Hennefeld. Dr Hennefeld is Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is author of Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (Columbia UP, 2018), co-editor of the journal Cultural Critique (UMN Press), and co-editor of two volumes: Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019) and Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence (Duke UP, 2020). She is co-curator of the DVD/Blu-ray set, Cinema’s First Nasty Women (Kino Lorber, 2022), which includes 99 feminist silent films.

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