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  • Hysterical!

    Women in American Comedy

    Susan Koppelman Award Winner: "A juicy read for those who love the many ways female comics use their art to question the patriarchy." — BustAmy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women didn't come ... Leer más

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  • Pretty/Funny

    Women Comedians and Body Politics

    "A totally engaging read [and] a fascinating look at the diversity and range of female comics . . . by an author who herself obviously has a sense of humor." —Joanna E. Rapf, coeditor of The Blackwell Companion to Film ComedyWomen in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia ... Leer más

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  • The Americans

    Series series TV Milestones
    Explores The Americans as a groundbreaking series that brilliantly merged the spy genre and domestic melodrama.Based on the actual KGB strategy of planting "illegals" into American life during the Cold War, The Americans (FX 2013–2018) focuses on Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Kerri Russell), Soviet spies posing as middlebrow travel agents in the Virginia suburbs. Groundbreaking ... Leer más

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  • Ziegfeld Girl

    Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema

    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, and camp. Featured in Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.’s renowned revues, which ran on Broadway from 1907 to 1931, the Ziegfeld Girl has appeared in her trademark feather headdresses, parading and posing, occasionally singing and ... Leer más

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  • Hardboiled and High Heeled

    The Woman Detective in Popular Culture

    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 Hammer. Hardboiled and High Heeled 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, Hardboiled and High ... Leer más

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  • Our Blessed Rebel Queen

    Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia

    Edición de Linda Mizejewski, Tanya D. Zuk ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    Exploration of Carrie Fisher as star, author, comedian, and iconic personification of Princess Leia.Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia is 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. Editors Linda Mizejewski and Tanya D. Zuk ... Leer más

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    In Praise of Difficult Women

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    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

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    WHODUNIT? YOUDUNIT!So you want to write a mystery. There's more to it than just a detective, a dead body, and Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick. Fortunately, Larry Beinhart--Edgar Award-winning author of You Get What You Pay For, Foreign Exchange, and American Hero--has taken a break from writing smart, suspenseful thrillers to act as your guide through all the twists and ... Leer más

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  • How to Watch Television, Second Edition

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    A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the presentWe all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it “good” or “bad.” Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that program’s cultural significance, ... Leer más

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  • A Cinema of Loneliness

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  • Smart Chicks on Screen

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