I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture) - Softcover

Tremper, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813925207 ISBN 13: 9780813925202

Verlag: University Press of Virginia, 2006

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"Blondes not only have more fun but get more respect in Ellen Tremper's smart and witty tribute to the golden-haired maidens and brassy bombshells who defy as much as they define our sexual culture. I'm No Angel captures all the moral shades - the dark as well as the bright highlights of the blonde from Victorian to contemporary times - and also reveals the surprising ways in which the fair heroines of the novel and the ravishing blondes of the silver screen helped revolutionize social attitudes toward women." - Maria DiBattista, author of Fast-Talking Dames "I'm No Angel is original, incisive, cracklingly intelligent, and a pleasure to read. I'm not sure whether or not blondes have more fun, but the reader of this book certainly will." - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours"

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In I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film, Ellen Tremper shows how, at its roots, the image of the blonde was remodeled by women writers in the nineteenth century and actors in the twentieth to keep pace with the changes in real women's lives. As she demonstrates, through these novels and performances, fair hair and its traditional attributes-patience, pliancy, endurance, and innocence-suffered a deliberate alienation, which both reflected and enhanced women's personal and social freedoms essential to the evolution of modernity. From fiction to film, the active, desiring, and sometimes difficult women who disobeyed, manipulated, and thwarted their fellow characters mimicked and furthered women's growing power in the world. The author concludes with an overview of the various roles of the blonde in film from the 1960s to the present and speculates about the possible end of blond dominance.

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• Verlag: University Press of Virginia
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0813925207
• ISBN 13: 9780813925202
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308