This dissertation examines the role of entertainment films in negotiating the meaning of national identity in interwar Hungary. Fragmented and traumatized by WWI and its …
We are often told that ours is a “late” age. Lateness—as in the “late work” or “late capitalism”—simultaneously suggests something that has survived beyond its …
Laughter has a material history. In my dissertation, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes," I argue that comedy has haunted the emergence of cinema …
