Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks
Satyapal Dang
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Description for Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks
Hardback. Addressing the relationship between gossip, women and film in the genre of chick flicks, this book presents two case studies on the films Easy A (Will Gluck 2010) and Emma (Douglas McGrath 1996) to demonstrate that hearsay plays a defining role in the staging of these films and thus in the film experience in this under-theorised genre. Num Pages: 75 pages, 20 colour illustrations, 20 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 247.
This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks. Presenting two case studies on the films Easy A (Will Gluck 2010) and Emma (Douglas McGrath 1996), Dang demonstrates that hearsay plays a defining role in the staging of these films and thus in the film experience. While the lack of women’s voices in the general public sphere remains an issue, the female voice is very present in the contemporary woman’s film. In its analysis of gossip, this book focuses on a form of communication that has traditionally been assigned to women and is ... Read more
This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks. Presenting two case studies on the films Easy A (Will Gluck 2010) and Emma (Douglas McGrath 1996), Dang demonstrates that hearsay plays a defining role in the staging of these films and thus in the film experience. While the lack of women’s voices in the general public sphere remains an issue, the female voice is very present in the contemporary woman’s film. In its analysis of gossip, this book focuses on a form of communication that has traditionally been assigned to women and is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
75
Condition
New
Number of Pages
75
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137560179
SKU
V9781137560179
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Ref
99-15
About Satyapal Dang
Dr Sarah-Mai Dang is a Research Assistant at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Previously, she worked at the Collaborative Research Center “Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits” (SFB 626) and at the Department for Film Studies, both at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
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