Smart Chicks on Screen - Representing Women''s Intellect in Film and Television

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Laura Mattoon D'Amore Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Laura Mattoon D'AmoreChapter One: Not Just Born Yesterday: July Holliday, the Red Scare, and the (Mis-)Uses of Hollywood's "Dumb Blonde" ImageStephen R. DuncanChapter Two: The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop: Protofeminism and Collective Subjectivity in Some Like it HotMelissa MeadeChapter Three: Brainy Broads: Images of Women's Intellect in Film NoirSheri Chinen BiesenChapter Four: Troubling Binaries: Women Scientists in 1950s B-MoviesLinda LevittChapter Five: "The High Priestess of the Desert": Female Intellect and Subjectivity in ContactAllison WhitneyChapter Six: Mad Men's Peggy Olsen: A Pre-Feminist Champion in a Post-Feminist TV LandscapeStefania MarghituChapter Seven: A Deeper Cut: Enlightened Sexism and Grey's AnatomyMikaela FeroliChapter Eight: "There is no genius": Dr. Joan Watson and the Re-writing of Gender and Intelligence on CBS' ElementaryHelen Kang and Natasha PattersonChapter Nine: ...Stories Worth Telling: How Kerry Washington Balances Brains, Beauty, and Power in HollywoodDe Anna J. ReeseChapter Ten: Post-Feminism, Sexuality and the Question of Millenial Identity on HBO's GirlsMargaret J. TallyChapter Eleven: I Can't Believe I Fell for Muppet Man! Female Nerds and the Order of DiscourseRaewyn CampbellChapter Twelve: Brains, Beauty, and Feminist Television: The Women of The Big Bang Theory Amanda StoneChapter Thirteen: Too Smart for Their Own Good? Images of Young Jewish Women in Television and FilmRachel Shaina BernsteinAbout the EditorAbout the ContributorsIndex...

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• Authors: &apos, Laura Mattoon amore, D&apos, Laura Mattoon D''''amore
• Assisted by: Laura Mattoon D'Amore (Editor), D'Amore Laura Mattoon (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2014
• EAN: 9781442237476
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3747-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Film and History; Film and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism