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- catalog abstract "Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman - often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top"--Uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority. At the heart of the book are detailed analyses of two highly successful unruly women - the comedian Roseanne Arnold and the Muppet Miss Piggy. Putting these two figures in a deeper cultural perspective, Rowe also examines the evolution of romantic film comedy from the classical Hollywood period to the present, showing how the comedic roles of actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Marilyn Monroe offered an alternative, empowered image of women that differed sharply from the "suffering heroine" portrayed in classical melodramas. This feminist study of comedy in film and television offers exciting new opportunities for understanding these media. Written with verve and humor, it will be important reading for a wide popular and scholarly audience in mass communications, gender studies, and popular culture.".
- catalog contributor b7518495.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Feminist film theory and the question of laughter -- Part 1: The unruly woman. Pig ladies, big ladies, and ladies with big mouths: feminism and the carnivalesque ; Roseanne: the unruly woman as domestic goddess -- Part 2: Female unruliness in narrative cinema. Narrative, comedy, and melodrama ; Romantic comedy and the unruly virgin in classical Hollywood cinema ; Producer-heroes and bridges on top ; Dumb blondes ; Masculinity and melodrama in postclassical romantic comedy -- Afterword: Shape-shifting.".
- catalog description "Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman - often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top"--Uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority. At the heart of the book are detailed analyses of two highly successful unruly women - the comedian Roseanne Arnold and the Muppet Miss Piggy. Putting these two figures in a deeper cultural perspective, Rowe also examines the evolution of romantic film comedy from the classical Hollywood period to the present, showing how the comedic roles of actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Marilyn Monroe offered an alternative, empowered image of women that differed sharply from the "suffering heroine" portrayed in classical melodramas. This feminist study of comedy in film and television offers exciting new opportunities for understanding these media. Written with verve and humor, it will be important reading for a wide popular and scholarly audience in mass communications, gender studies, and popular culture.".
- catalog extent "x, 272 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Unruly woman.".
- catalog identifier "0292770693 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0292790724".
- catalog isFormatOf "Unruly woman.".
- catalog isPartOf "Texas film studies series".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press,".
- catalog relation "Unruly woman.".
- catalog subject "791.43/652042 20".
- catalog subject "Comedy films History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Feminism and motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "PN1995.9.W6 R65 1995".
- catalog subject "Television comedies History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Television comedies.".
- catalog subject "Women in motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "Women on television.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Feminist film theory and the question of laughter -- Part 1: The unruly woman. Pig ladies, big ladies, and ladies with big mouths: feminism and the carnivalesque ; Roseanne: the unruly woman as domestic goddess -- Part 2: Female unruliness in narrative cinema. Narrative, comedy, and melodrama ; Romantic comedy and the unruly virgin in classical Hollywood cinema ; Producer-heroes and bridges on top ; Dumb blondes ; Masculinity and melodrama in postclassical romantic comedy -- Afterword: Shape-shifting.".
- catalog title "The unruly woman : gender and the genres of laughter / by Kathleen Rowe.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".