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Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors and as characters-alongside hard-boiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer. Hardboiled and High Heeled examines the meteoric rise of the female detective in contemporary film, television, and literature. Richly illustrated and written with a fan's love of the genre, Hardboiled and High Heeled is an essential introduction to women in detective fiction, from past to present, from pulp fiction to blockbuster films.
Hannibal (Film) --- Hannibal (motion picture) --- Silence des Agneaux, Le (Film) --- Silence of the Lambs (Film) --- Silence of the Lambs (Motion picture) --- Women private investigators --- Fictitious characters --- Detective and mystery stories --- Femmes détectives --- Femmes détectives au cinéma --- Personnages fictifs --- Roman policier --- Fiction --- In motion pictures --- History and criticism --- Romans, nouvelles, etc. --- Histoire et critique --- Sociology of culture --- Film --- Thematology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Mass communications --- Women detectives in mass media --- Mass media --- Fictitious characters. --- United States --- Grafton, Sue --- Criticism and interpretation --- Cornwell, Patricia --- Detective and mystery films --- X-Files (television program) --- Women in motion pictures --- Women in television --- Women detectives in mass media. --- Movies --- Literature --- Popular culture --- Television --- Images of women --- Book --- Detective novels
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As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century's darling of "divine decadence"--a measure of how much we are attracted by the fiction of the "shocking" British/American vamp in Weimar Berlin. Originally a character in a short story by Isherwood, published in 1939, "Sally" has appeared over the years in John Van Druten's stage play I Am a Camera, Henry Cornelius's film of the same name, and Joe Masteroff's stage musical and Bob Fosse's Academy Award-winning musical film, both entitled Cabaret. Linda Mizejewski shows how each successive repetition of the tale of the showgirl and the male writer/scholar has linked the young man's fascination with Sally more closely to the fascination of fascism. In every version, political difference is read as sexual difference, fascism is disavowed as secretly female or homosexual, and the hero eventually renounces both Sally and the corruption of the coming regime. Mizejewski argues, however, that the historical and political aspects of this story are too specific--and too frightening--to explain in purely psychoanalytic terms. Instead, Divine Decadence examines how each text engages particular cultural issues and anxieties of its era, from postwar "Momism" to the Vietnam War. Sally Bowles as the symbol of "wild Weimar" or Nazi eroticism represents "history" from within the grid of many other controversial discourses, including changing theories of fascism, the story of Camp, vicissitudes of male homosexual representations and discourses, and the relationships of these issues to images of female sexuality. To Mizejewski, the Sally Bowles adaptations end up duplicating the fascist politics they strain to condemn, reproducing the homophobia, misogyny, fascination for spectacle, and emphasis of sexual difference that characterized German fascism.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Bowles, Sally (Fictitious character). --- Decadence in literature. --- Fascism and literature. --- Isherwood, Christopher, -- 1904-1986 -- Adaptations. --- Isherwood, Christopher, -- 1904-1986 -- Characters -- Sally Bowles. --- Isherwood, Christopher, -- 1904-1986. -- Goodbye to Berlin. --- Women in literature. --- Bowles, Sally (Fictitious character) --- Decadence in literature --- Fascism and literature --- Women in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Literature and fascism --- Literature --- Sally Bowles (Fictitious character) --- Isherwood, Christopher, --- Isherwood, Christopher --- Bradshaw-Isherwood, Christopher William, --- אישרווד, כריסטופר --- Adaptations. --- Characters --- Sally Bowles. --- Berlin (Germany) --- Stadt Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : State) --- Berlim (Germany) --- Baralīna (Germany) --- Berolinum (Germany) --- Berlinum (Germany) --- Verolino (Germany) --- Land Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin State (Germany) --- Berlino (Germany) --- Berlijn (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : West) --- Berlin (Germany : East) --- In literature.
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Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either “pretty” or “funny.” Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars, and, most often, they’ve been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. In this pretty-versus-funny history, women writer-comedians—no matter what they look like—have ended up on the other side of “pretty,” enabling them to make it the topic and butt of the joke, the ideal that is exposed as funny. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don’t all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women’s comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century.
Women comedians --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Racism --- Ideal beautiful women --- Aesthetics --- Women in art
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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sexology --- Film --- Theatrical science --- Fiction --- Authoritarianism --- Movie review --- Movies --- Literature --- Nazism --- Sexuality --- Theatre --- Images of women --- Book --- Germany
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Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Human physiology --- Feminism --- Gender --- Homosexuality --- Humour --- Body --- Appearance --- Images of women --- Women --- Blackness --- Book --- Fey, Tina --- DeGeneres, Ellen --- Cho, Margaret --- Griffin, Kathy --- Silverman, Sarah --- Sykes, Wanda --- United States of America
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In the first decades of the twentieth century, Broadway teemed with showgirls, but only the Ziegfeld Girl has survived in American popular culture—as a figure of legend, nostalgia, and camp. Featured in Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.’s renowned revues, which ran on Broadway from 1907 to 1931, the Ziegfeld Girl has appeared in her trademark feather headdresses, parading and posing, occasionally singing and dancing, in numerous musicals and musical films paying direct or indirect homage to the intrepid producer and his glorious Girl. Linda Mizejewski analyzes the Ziegfeld Girl as a cultural icon and argues that during a time when American national identity was in flux, Ziegfeld Girls were both products and representations of a white, upscale, heterosexual national ideal.Mizejewski traces the Ziegfeld Girl’s connections to turn-of-the-century celebrity culture, black Broadway, the fashion industry, and the changing sexual and gender identities evident in mainstream entertainment during the Ziegfeld years. In addition, she emphasizes how crises of immigration and integration made the identity and whiteness of the American Girl an urgent issue on Broadway’s revue stages during that era. Although her focus is on the showgirl as a “type,” the analysis is intermingled with discussions of figures like Anna Held, Fanny Brice, and Bessie McCoy, the Yama Yama girl, as well as Ziegfeld himself. Finally, Mizejewski discusses the classic American films that have most vividly kept this showgirl alive in both popular and camp culture, including The Great Ziegfeld, Ziegfeld Girl, and the Busby Berkeley musicals that cloned Ziegfeld’s showgirls for decades. Ziegfeld Girl will appeal to scholars and students in American studies, popular culture, theater and performance studies, film history, gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, and social history.
Women entertainers --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Racism --- Ziegfeld, Flo,
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Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Racism --- Women entertainers --- Ziegfeld, Flo, --- Ziegfeld, Flo
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"Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens large and small, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women aren't a new phenomenon-they have generations of hysterically funny foremothers. Fay Tincher's daredevil stunts, Mae West's linebacker walk, Lucille Ball's manic slapstick, Carol Burnett's athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneres's tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldberg's sly twinkle, and Tina Fey's acerbic wit all paved the way for contemporary unruly women, whose comedy upends the norms and ideals of women's bodies and behaviors. Hysterical! Women in American Comedy delivers a lively survey of women comics from the stars of the silent cinema up through the multimedia presences of Tina Fey and Lena Dunham. This anthology of original essays includes contributions by the field's leading authorities, introducing a new framework for women's comedy that analyzes the implications of hysterical laughter and hysterically funny performances. Expanding on previous studies of comedians such as Mae West, Moms Mabley, and Margaret Cho, and offering the first scholarly work on comedy pioneers Mabel Normand, Fay Tincher, and Carol Burnett, the contributors explore such topics as racial/ethnic/sexual identity, celebrity, stardom, censorship, auteurism, cuteness, and postfeminism across multiple media."--
American wit and humor --- Women comedians --- Feminism. --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Body image in women. --- History and criticism. --- 1900-2099 --- United States.
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