Analyze these 4 maid short films, drawing on what you learn from the suggested reading you chose. What different forms of “work” is this working girl doing in early film spectacle, grammar, or history?（Please do not use any resources other than these provided by me）
Films:
-Mary Jane’s Mishap (Britain, dir. G.A. Smith, 1903, 4 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t4NdK3weAg
-A Shocking Accident (USA, Biograph, 1903, 1 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REYiQnTqfRc
-A Sticky Woman [Une Femme Collante] (France, dir. Alice Guy-Blaché, 1906, 3 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swP1olwYr5Q
-Laughing Gas (USA, Edison, dir. Edwin S. Porter, 1907, 8 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YCqkam_MX4
Pick one suggested reading to go with your choice:
– Maggie Hennefeld, “Early Cinema and the Comedy of Catastrophe,” Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (2018): 31-53.
-Jacqueline Stewart, “What Happened in the Transition? Reading Race, Gender, and Labor between the Shots” (2004): 103-123.
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