Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American CultureUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 - 258 страница Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the Thousand and One Nights. While there are many studies of tricksters, few have focused on the chicanery of women, and none have dealt with the ways in which the female trickster is constructed in America. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first book to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with such nineteenth-century novels as Capitola the Madcap and moving through twentieth-century novels, films, radio, and television shows, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity. She considers texts of the 1920s such as Elinor Glyn's It and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; films of Mae West, as well as other Depression-era and wartime film comedy; the postwar television series I Love Lucy; and such contemporary texts as "Roseanne," "Ellen," and "Batman." In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery. |
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... Loos made Lorelei's " acquisitive intelligence " in- creasingly visible as she wrote the novel , the sequel But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes ( the title alone spells out Loos's attempts to revise and recast the cultural phenomenon she ...
... Loos to quip , " I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists . They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men . That's true , but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket " ( The ...
... Loos meant to convey in her representation of Lorelei but concealed too cleverly with comedy : Not one reader in a thousand sensed the real meaning of the book . They read of the gold - digging diversions of the beautiful and dumb ...
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