Smart Chicks on Screen

Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television
Herausgeber: D'Amore, Laura Mattoon

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Produktbeschreibung

In Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television, Laura Mattoon D'Amore brings together a collection of essays that examine the disparate portrayals of beauty and brains in film and television. This text will be of interest to scholars of film and television, communications, and women's studies, to name a few.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781442237476
• ISBN-10: 1442237473
• Artikelnr.: 40728969

Autorenporträt

Laura Mattoon D'Amore is assistant professor of American studies at Roger Williams University. She is the editor of Bound by Love: Familial Bonding in Film and Television Since 1950 (2009) and co-editor of We Are What We Remember: The American Past through Commemoration (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Laura Mattoon D'Amore Chapter One: Not Just Born Yesterday:
July Holliday, the Red Scare, and the (Mis-)Uses of Hollywood's "Dumb
Blonde" Image Stephen R. Duncan Chapter Two: The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop:
Protofeminism and Collective Subjectivity in Some Like it Hot Melissa Meade
Chapter Three: Brainy Broads: Images of Women's Intellect in Film Noir
Sheri Chinen Biesen Chapter Four: Troubling Binaries: Women Scientists in
1950s B-Movies Linda Levitt Chapter Five: "The High Priestess of the
Desert": Female Intellect and Subjectivity in Contact Allison Whitney
Chapter Six: Mad Men's Peggy Olsen: A Pre-Feminist Champion in a
Post-Feminist TV Landscape Stefania Marghitu Chapter Seven: A Deeper Cut:
Enlightened Sexism and Grey's Anatomy Mikaela Feroli Chapter Eight: "There
is no genius": Dr. Joan Watson and the Re-writing of Gender and
Intelligence on CBS' Elementary Helen Kang and Natasha Patterson Chapter
Nine: ...Stories Worth Telling: How Kerry Washington Balances Brains,
Beauty, and Power in Hollywood De Anna J. Reese Chapter Ten: Post-Feminism,
Sexuality and the Question of Millenial Identity on HBO's Girls Margaret J.
Tally Chapter Eleven: I Can't Believe I Fell for Muppet Man! Female Nerds
and the Order of Discourse Raewyn Campbell Chapter Twelve: Brains, Beauty,
and Feminist Television: The Women of The Big Bang Theory Amanda Stone
Chapter Thirteen: Too Smart for Their Own Good? Images of Young Jewish
Women in Television and Film Rachel Shaina Bernstein About the Editor About
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