TY - BOOK ID - 30915288 TI - Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks PY - 2017 SN - 1137560185 1137560177 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, DB - UniCat KW - Romance films. KW - Gossip. KW - Women. KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Chick flicks KW - Love films KW - Hollywood romance films KW - Romance (Motion pictures) KW - Romance movies KW - Romance pictures (Motion pictures) KW - Romantic films KW - Romantic movies KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Communication KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures. KW - Feminist theory. KW - Film genres. KW - Popular Culture. KW - Culture. KW - Gender. KW - Film Theory. KW - Feminism. KW - Genre. KW - Popular Culture . KW - Culture and Gender. KW - Women's Studies. KW - Cultural sociology KW - Culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Civilization KW - Popular culture KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Genre films KW - Genres, Film KW - Motion picture genres KW - Feminism KW - Feminist philosophy KW - Feminist sociology KW - Theory of feminism KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - Social aspects KW - Plots, themes, etc. KW - Philosophy KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30915288 AB - This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks. Presenting two case studies on the films Easy A (Will Gluck 2010) and Emma (Douglas McGrath 1996), Dang demonstrates that hearsay plays a defining role in the staging of these films and thus in the film experience. While the lack of women’s voices in the general public sphere remains an issue, the female voice is very present in the contemporary woman’s film. In its analysis of gossip, this book focuses on a form of communication that has traditionally been assigned to women and is consequently disregarded. Dang provides a theoretical framework for the understanding of speech acts in the popular, yet undertheorized, genre of chick flicks. Dr Sarah-Mai Dang is a Research Assistant at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Previously, she worked at the Collaborative Research Center “Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits” (SFB 626) and at the Department for Film Studies, both at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. ER -