Hilde D'haeyere is a photographer and silent film historian. She lectures at KASK, school of arts of the University College in Ghent, Belgium, where she heads the master's program in film. Among her recent publications are "Slapstick on Slapstick" in Film History (2014), "Frankfurter Slapstick: Benjamin, Kracauer and Adorno on American Screen Comedy," in October 160 (2017) co-authored with Steven Jacobs, and "Ziegfeldized Slapstick, Useful Comedy" in The Colour Fantastic (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).