Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American CultureWomen 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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Comedy and the Trickster The forms of popular culture in which female tricksters
recur have tended to be in the genre of comedy . My working definition of comedy
comes from Arthur Koestler ' s theory of the bisociation of two operative fields or ...
The watcher of death and tragedy has nothing to do but sit and wait for the
inevitable end ; but something gets born at the end of comedy , and the watcher
of birth is a member of a busy society ” ( “ The Mythos of Spring : Comedy ” 148 ) .
The censorship of the Production Code transforms the transgressive West star
persona into the kind of female trickster who emerged as the screwball heroine in
Depression - era film comedy . Although the sexually active heroines in films like
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Female Tricksters | 30 |
in the Depression and War Years | 94 |
Covert Power Television and Postwar | 155 |
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| Наслов | Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture |
| Аутор | Lori Landay |
| Издање | илустровано |
| Издавач | University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 |
| Оригинал из | Универзитет Индијана |
| Дигитализовано | 17 авг 2009 |
| ISBN | 0812234359, 9780812234350 |
| Дужина | 258 страница |
| Извоз навода | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |