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- catalog abstract "Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first study to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with nineteenth-century novels such as The Hidden Hand, or Capitola the Madcap and moving through twentieth-century fiction, film, radio, and television, 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 the silent film It and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; pre- and post-Production Code Mae West films, Depression-era screwball comedy, and wartime comedy; the postwar television series I Love Lucy; and such contemporary texts as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ellen, Batman Returns, and Sister Act. In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery. When these texts are seen in a continuum, they tell a powerful story about woman's place and women's power during the sexual desegregation of American society.".
- catalog contributor b10653915.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-244) and index.".
- catalog description "Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first study to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with nineteenth-century novels such as The Hidden Hand, or Capitola the Madcap and moving through twentieth-century fiction, film, radio, and television, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity.".
- catalog description "Preface: "Whenever I Take a Notion" -- 1. Running Mad, Taking Cover: Female Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century Fiction by American Women -- 2. Economics and Erotics: The Female Trickster in the Jazz Age -- 3. Out of the Garden and into the War: Female Tricksters in the Depression and War Years -- 4. Liminal Lucy: Covert Power, Television, and Postwar Domestic Ideology -- 5. You Can't Go Home Again: Feminism and the Female Trickster in Contemporary American Culture.".
- catalog description "She considers texts of the 1920s such as the silent film It and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; pre- and post-Production Code Mae West films, Depression-era screwball comedy, and wartime comedy; the postwar television series I Love Lucy; and such contemporary texts as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ellen, Batman Returns, and Sister Act. In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery.".
- catalog description "When these texts are seen in a continuum, they tell a powerful story about woman's place and women's power during the sexual desegregation of American society.".
- catalog extent "xi, 258 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Madcaps, screwballs, and con women.".
- catalog identifier "0812216512 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0812234359 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Madcaps, screwballs, and con women.".
- catalog isPartOf "Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog relation "Madcaps, screwballs, and con women.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.42/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Feminist theory United States.".
- catalog subject "HQ1426 .L34 1998".
- catalog subject "Man-woman relationships United States.".
- catalog subject "Women United States Comic books, strips, etc.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women in mass media.".
- catalog subject "Women in popular culture United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: "Whenever I Take a Notion" -- 1. Running Mad, Taking Cover: Female Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century Fiction by American Women -- 2. Economics and Erotics: The Female Trickster in the Jazz Age -- 3. Out of the Garden and into the War: Female Tricksters in the Depression and War Years -- 4. Liminal Lucy: Covert Power, Television, and Postwar Domestic Ideology -- 5. You Can't Go Home Again: Feminism and the Female Trickster in Contemporary American Culture.".
- catalog title "Madcaps, screwballs, and con women : the female trickster in American culture / Lori Landay.".
- catalog type "Comic books, strips, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".