Lachende Körper

Claudia Preschl's study focusses on short comedies and comedy serials between 1910 and 1918 and is a contribution to the rediscovery of the early "other" cinema in which comediennes such "Rosalie", "Léa" or Asta Nielsen played a decisive part. Lachende Körper describes the variety of preposterous body-language and shows how anarchistic body-politics and rebellious strategies of Gender in Early Cinema can be decoded for today.

"A book for all those who love cinema." (literaturkritik.de)

  
Claudia Preschl

Lachende Körper. Komikerinnen im Kino der 1910er Jahre

FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Vol. 8

Vienna 2008. 208 pages, with numerous illustrations. In German
ISBN 978-3-901644-27-6
Table of Contents - Lachende Körper (PDF)