Smart Chicks on Screen : Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Film and History Series .
- Film and History Series .
Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Not Just Born Yesterday -- The Fuzzy End of the Lollypop -- Brainy Broads -- Troubling Binaries -- "The High Priestess of the Desert" -- Mad Men 's Peggy Olson -- A Deeper Cut -- "There Is No Genius" -- Stories Worth Telling -- Postfeminism, Sexuality, and the Question of Millennial Identity on HBO's Girls -- I Can't Believe I Fell for Muppet Man! -- Brains, Beauty, and Feminist Television -- Too Smart for Their Own Good? -- Index -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors.
In Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television, 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.