Kathleen Rowe, Kathleen Rowe Karlyn

The Unruly Woman

Gender and the Genres of Laughter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman--often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or 'woman on top'--uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority.

Produktdetails

• University of Texas Press
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780292770690
• ISBN-10: 0292770693
• Artikelnr.: 26394879

Autorenporträt

A former newspaper reporter and editor, Kathleen Rowe teaches film studies at the University of Oregon, where she is Assistant Professor of English.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. Introduction: Feminist Film Theory and the Question of Laughter
3. Part One: The Unruly Woman
* 1. Pig Ladies, Big Ladies, and Ladies with Big Mouths: Feminism and
the Carnivalesque
* 2. Roseanne: The Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess
4. Part Two: Female Unruliness in Narrative Cinema
* 3. Narrative, Comedy, and Melodrama
* 4. Romantic Comedy and the Unruly Virgin in Classical Hollywood
Cinema
* 5. Professor-Heroes and Brides on Top
* 6. Dumb Blondes
* 7. Masculinity and Melodrama in Postclassical Romantic Comedy
5. Afterword: Shape-Shifting
6. Notes
7. Works Cited
8. Index