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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... hand , decep- tion and role playing are depicted as necessary to the modern person- ality who can adapt and thrive in an unstable social system , one that includes changing social relations of the sexes . Dale Carnegie's influ- ential ...
... hand may be quite continental , but diamonds are a girl's best friend . " 1 But a girl's best friend in the movie is ... hands over control to the ( male ) viewer . Because Monroe's incarnation of female sexuality is passive , she rep ...
... Hand : A Drama in Three Acts . By C. H. Hazelwood . Based on E. D. E. N. Southworth's novel The Hidden Hand , or Capitola the Madcap . London : T. H. Lang , 186 ?. Reprint , New York : Readex Microprint , 1967 . Desperately Seeking ...
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