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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... Living with a Difficult Husband " ( Fig . 2.9 ) . Glyn was particularly adept at parlaying her words and persona into commodities . In a manner similar to how Anita Loos parlayed the phrase " Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ” into a lifelong ...
... living room . In sharp contrast to her behavior at the Littlefields ' , Lucy gamely follows the schedule . That Lucy attempts to manipulate time is telling , both of her func- tion as a trickster in American culture and of the ...
... Living ( 1937 ) , Topper ( 1937 ) , Bluebeard's Eighth Wife ( 1938 ) , Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) , Holiday ( 1938 ) , Joy of Living ( 1938 ) , The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ) , His Girl Friday ( 1940 ) , My Favorite Wife ( 1940 ) , Too ...
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