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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458752803321

Titolo

Smart chicks on screen : representing women's intellect in film and television / / edited by Laura Mattoon D'Amore ; contributors, Rachel S. Bernstein [and thirteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4422-7562-6

1-4422-3748-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Film and History

Disciplina

791.43/6522

Soggetti

Gifted women in motion pictures

Gifted women on television

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Not Just Born Yesterday; Chapter Two: The Fuzzy End of the Lollypop; Chapter Three: Brainy Broads; Chapter Four: Troubling Binaries; Chapter Five: "The High Priestess of the Desert"; Chapter Six: Mad Men's Peggy Olson; Chapter Seven: A Deeper Cut; Chapter Eight: "There Is No Genius"; Chapter Nine: Stories Worth Telling; Chapter Ten: Postfeminism, Sexuality, and the Question of Millennial Identity on HBO's Girls; Chapter Eleven: I Can't Believe I Fell for Muppet Man!; Chapter Twelve: Brains, Beauty, and Feminist Television

Chapter Thirteen: Too Smart for Their Own Good?Index; About the Editor; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>In </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television</span><span>, Laura Mattoon D'Amore brings together a collection of essays that examine the disparate portrayals of beauty and brains in film and television. This text will be of interest to scholars of film and television, communications, and women's studies, to name a



few.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>