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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... novel Uncle Tom's Cabin , appear as minor figures within a sea of sentimental models . Cassy escapes from and wreaks ... novel The Hidden Hand , or Capitola the Madcap ( 1859 ) , Jean Muir in Louisa May Alcott's thriller Behind a Mask ...
... novel The Whole Family : A Novel by Twelve Authors ( 1908 ) . Aunt Elizabeth , considered an " old maid " by her family , is really an independent new woman who refuses to be marginalized as a spinster . But before I discuss Aunt ...
... novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1925 ) . At that moment , Monroe's star image and the various print , film , and stage incarnations of Lorelei fused , and Lorelei's trickiness was eclipsed by Monroe's embodiment of the " dumb blonde ...
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