Smart chicks on screen : representing women's intellect in film and television /
Smart chicks on screen : representing women's intellect in film and television /
edited by Laura Mattoon D'Amore.
- 245 pages ; 24 cm.
- Film and history .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Laura Mattoon D'Amore -- Not Just Born Yesterday: July Holliday, the Red Scare, and the (Mis-)Uses of Hollywood's "Dumb Blonde" Image / Stephen R. Duncan -- The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop: Protofeminism and Collective Subjectivity in Some Like it Hot / Melissa Meade -- Brainy Broads: Images of Women's Intellect in Film Noir / Sheri Chinen Biesen -- Troubling Binaries: Women Scientists in 1950s B-Movies / Linda Levitt -- "The High Priestess of the Desert": Female Intellect and Subjectivity in Contact / Allison Whitney -- Mad Men's Peggy Olsen: A Pre-Feminist Champion in a Post-Feminist TV Landscape / Stefania Marghitu -- A Deeper Cut: Enlightened Sexism and Grey's Anatomy / Mikaela Feroli -- "There is no genius": Dr. Joan Watson and the Re-writing of Gender and Intelligence on CBS' Elementary / Helen Kang and Natasha Patterson -- ...Stories Worth Telling: How Kerry Washington Balances Brains, Beauty, and Power in Hollywood / De Anna J. Reese -- Post-Feminism, Sexuality and the Question of Millennial Identity on HBO's Girls / Margaret J. Tally -- I Can't Believe I Fell for Muppet Man! Female Nerds and the Order of Discourse / Raewyn Campbell -- Brains, Beauty, and Feminist Television: The Women of The Big Bang Theory / Amanda Stone -- Too Smart for Their Own Good? Images of Young Jewish Women in Television and Film / Rachel Shaina Bernstein.
9781442237476
2014025507
Gifted women in motion pictures.
Gifted women on television.
PN1995.9.W6 / S63 2014
791.43/6522
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Laura Mattoon D'Amore -- Not Just Born Yesterday: July Holliday, the Red Scare, and the (Mis-)Uses of Hollywood's "Dumb Blonde" Image / Stephen R. Duncan -- The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop: Protofeminism and Collective Subjectivity in Some Like it Hot / Melissa Meade -- Brainy Broads: Images of Women's Intellect in Film Noir / Sheri Chinen Biesen -- Troubling Binaries: Women Scientists in 1950s B-Movies / Linda Levitt -- "The High Priestess of the Desert": Female Intellect and Subjectivity in Contact / Allison Whitney -- Mad Men's Peggy Olsen: A Pre-Feminist Champion in a Post-Feminist TV Landscape / Stefania Marghitu -- A Deeper Cut: Enlightened Sexism and Grey's Anatomy / Mikaela Feroli -- "There is no genius": Dr. Joan Watson and the Re-writing of Gender and Intelligence on CBS' Elementary / Helen Kang and Natasha Patterson -- ...Stories Worth Telling: How Kerry Washington Balances Brains, Beauty, and Power in Hollywood / De Anna J. Reese -- Post-Feminism, Sexuality and the Question of Millennial Identity on HBO's Girls / Margaret J. Tally -- I Can't Believe I Fell for Muppet Man! Female Nerds and the Order of Discourse / Raewyn Campbell -- Brains, Beauty, and Feminist Television: The Women of The Big Bang Theory / Amanda Stone -- Too Smart for Their Own Good? Images of Young Jewish Women in Television and Film / Rachel Shaina Bernstein.
9781442237476
2014025507
Gifted women in motion pictures.
Gifted women on television.
PN1995.9.W6 / S63 2014
791.43/6522