Title:
Smart chicks on screen : representing women's intellect in film and television / edited by Laura Mattoon D'Amore.
Author:
D'Amore, Laura Mattoon, editor.
Publication Information:
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Call Number:
PN1995.9 .W6 S63 2014
Abstract:
"While women have long been featured in leading roles in film and television, the intellectual depictions of female characters in these mediums are out of line with reality. Women continue to be marginalized for their choices, overshadowed by men, and judged by their bodies. In fact, the intelligence of women is rarely the focus of television or film narratives, and on the rare occasion when smart women are showcased, their portrayals are undermined by socially awkward behavior or their intimate relationships are doomed to perpetual failure. While Hollywood claims to offer a different, more evolved look at women, these movies and shows often just repackage old character types that still downplay the intelligence and savvy of women. In Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television, Laura Mattoon D'Amore brings together an impressive array of scholarship that interrogates the portrayal of females on television and in movies. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: In what ways are women in film and television limited, or ostracized, by their intelligence? How do female roles reinforce standards of beauty, submissiveness, and silence over intellect, problem solving, and leadership? Are there women in film and television who are intelligent without also being objectified?"
ISBN:
9781442237476
Series:
Film and history
Film and history (Lanham, Md.)
Physical Description:
ix, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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.
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