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 Dâ 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 womenâ s studies, to name a few.

Produktdetails

• Film and History
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781442275621
• ISBN-10: 1442275626
• Artikelnr.: 45343143

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 the Contributors
Index