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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Rather than placing women spectators in the position of the “ male gaze , " as
influential feminist film critics from Laura Mulvey to E . Ann Kaplan have argued ,
this strategy encourages women to think of men as seeing women as women see
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13 In the novel It , the male character John Gaunt is the one with “ It ” ; as Parker
observes , “ Madame Glyn , in fact , has interestingly entangled his It with sadism
all through the book ” ( 467 ) . Parker ' s astute comment that Glyn ' s definition of
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Lucy fulfills this fifth criterion , then , by crossing the line between masculine and
feminine , most obviously in her male impersonations . In the male - dominated
world of performance , Lucy imitates forms of comedy associated ...
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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 |