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cinej-205	Adamson, Patrick	Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film	2018	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1421	45	35	While the prominence of women in early Hollywood is now near-universally acknowledged, the enormous significance of pioneering comic figures such as Mabel Normand continues to be markedly absent from popular narratives of the era, seemingly having fallen victim to the self-aggrandizing – and often misogynistic – biographical palimpsest practiced by the likes of Chaplin. The first chapter of this study takes its title from a question posed by Harper’s Bazaar in 1901: “Have women a sense of humor?”	cache/cinej-205.pdf	txt/cinej-205.txt