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I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film
Ellen Tremper
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Description for I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film
paperback. 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. This book is useful to those interested in literary and cinematic representations of the blonde, as well as to scholars in Victorian, women's, and film studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Have you ever wondered why there are so many ""dumb blonde"" jokes - always about women? Or how Ivanhoe's childhood love, the ""flaxen Saxon"" Rowena, morphed into Marilyn Monroe? Between that season in 1847 when readers encountered Becky Sharp playing the vengeful Clytemnestra - about to plunge a dagger into Agamemnon - and the sunny moment in 1932 when moviegoers watched Clark Gable plunge Jean Harlow's platinum-tressed head into a rain barrel, the playing field for women and men had leveled considerably. But how did the fairy-tale blonde, that placid, pliant girl, become the ""tomato upstair,"" as Monroe styled herself ... Read more
Have you ever wondered why there are so many ""dumb blonde"" jokes - always about women? Or how Ivanhoe's childhood love, the ""flaxen Saxon"" Rowena, morphed into Marilyn Monroe? Between that season in 1847 when readers encountered Becky Sharp playing the vengeful Clytemnestra - about to plunge a dagger into Agamemnon - and the sunny moment in 1932 when moviegoers watched Clark Gable plunge Jean Harlow's platinum-tressed head into a rain barrel, the playing field for women and men had leveled considerably. But how did the fairy-tale blonde, that placid, pliant girl, become the ""tomato upstair,"" as Monroe styled herself ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813925202
SKU
V9780813925202
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About Ellen Tremper
Ellen Tremper is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, and the author of ""Who Lived at Alfoxton?"": Virginia Woolf and English Romanticism.
Reviews for I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film
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 - ... Read more