... Louis Feuillade madness madwomen mental distress silent film whiteness The madwoman and the camera are longtime bedfellows. In the latter part of the nineteenth century, graphic photographs of female patients in mental institutions—predominantly white women in states of hysteria...

... Louis Feuillade’s 1919 serial Tih-Minh , whose half Vietnamese titular character is brought to France and undergoes multiple cycles of kidnapping, amnesia, and memory restoration. This instability of inscription—through Tih-Minh’s memory—is mirrored in the physical degradation of the serial, the unruly...