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Linda Mizejewski
In the first decades of the twentieth century Broadway teemed with showgirls, but only the Ziegfeld Girl has survived in American popular culture - as a figure of legend, nostalgia…
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Examines the meteoric rise of the female detective in contemporary film, television, and literature. Richly illustrated and written with a fan’s love of the genre, this is an essential introduction…
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As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century’s darling of divine decadence –a measure of how much we are…
This study examines how the character of Sally Bowles, introduced in a short story written by Christopher Isherwood in 1939, came to symbolize the wild Weimar Republic, and represented the…
Explores The Americans as a groundbreaking series that brilliantly merged the spy genre and domestic melodrama. Exploring the series’ bold merger of the spy genre and domestic melodrama, author Linda…
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Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors and as characters-alongside hard-boiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike…
Focusing on star writer/performer comedians-Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres-Pretty/Funny demonstrates that women’s comedy has become a prime site of feminism in the…
Analyses the Ziegfeld Girl as a cultural icon and argues that during a time when American national identity was in flux, Ziegfeld Girls were both products and representations of a…
Its most famous prop is a blanket, and its star endorsement was that real men do not wear undershirts. The humble and even corny touchstones of Frank Capra’s Academy-Award winning…
Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women’s comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to…
Includes essays that examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined 1990s.
Provides the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher’s career as actress, writer, and advocate. Fisher’s entangled relationship with the iconic Princess Leia is a focal point of this volume. The…
