Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American CultureUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 - 258 páginas Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the Thousand and One Nights. While there are many studies of tricksters, few have focused on the chicanery of women, and none have dealt with the ways in which the female trickster is constructed in America. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first book to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with such nineteenth-century novels as Capitola the Madcap and moving through twentieth-century novels, films, radio, and television shows, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity. She considers texts of the 1920s such as Elinor Glyn's It and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; films of Mae West, as well as other Depression-era and wartime film comedy; the postwar television series I Love Lucy; and such contemporary texts as "Roseanne," "Ellen," and "Batman." In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery. |
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... take chances . Discard your present lip- stick ... Tangee your lips ! " A year later in 1933 , a slogan for a Tangee ad asked ... takes the ' problem ' of female desire to a different conclusion , creating space for the desiring woman's ...
... takes his leave of Susan , he tells her , " Our relationship has been a series of misadventures from beginning to end . . . I'm gonna say goodnight and I hope that I never set eyes on you again . " After he gets up from the pratfall he ...
... take a dark turn - into the night— that prefigures film noir's preoccupation with female duplicity and im ... takes on the persona the men see in her and becomes the romantic princess ( Fig . 3.14 ) . Tricky to survive rather ...
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The Female Trickster | 47 |
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