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The unruly woman : gender and the genres of laughter / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karlyn, Kathleen Rowe, 1947- author.
- Series:
- Texas Film and Media Studies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in motion pictures.
- Feminism and motion pictures.
- Comedy films--History and criticism.
- Comedy films.
- Women on television.
- Television comedies--History and criticism.
- Television comedies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- How the unruly woman uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Feminist Film Theory and the Question of Laughter
- Part One: The Unruly Woman
- 1. Pig Ladies, Big Ladies, and Ladies with Big Mouths: Feminism and the Carnivalesque
- 2. Roseanne: The Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess
- Part Two: Female Unruliness in Narrative Cinema
- 3. Narrative, Comedy, and Melodrama
- 4. Romantic Comedy and the Unruly Virgin in Classical Hollywood Cinema
- 5. Professor-Heroes and Brides on Top
- 6. Dumb Blondes
- 7. Masculinity and Melodrama in Postclassical Romantic Comedy
- Afterword: Shape-Shifting
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780292799219
- 0292799217
- 9780292773233
- 0292773234
- OCLC:
- 1393306465
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