Too Much Of A Good Thing

Name: Too Much Of A Good Thing
Brand: University of Minnesota Press
SKU: 9780816627912
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Mae West as Cultural Icon

Szerző: Ramona Curry

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Minnesota Press

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Before Madonna, before Marilyn, there was Mae. The impact of Mae West - through her films, attitude,...

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Ramona Curry

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1996

oldal

240

EAN

9780816627912

ISBN

0816627916

Enbook ID

04728773

Kiadó

University of Minnesota Press

Súly

382

Méretek

152 x 229 x 18

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Before Madonna, before Marilyn, there was Mae. The impact of Mae West - through her films, attitude, and aphorisms ("Too much of a good thing can be wonderful"; "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?") - continues to reverberate through American popular culture more than fifteen years after her death. In Too Much of a Good Thing, Ramona Curry examines the interplay between West's bawdy, worldly persona and twentieth-century gender and media politics. Although West has remained an important figure, her image has fulfilled varied cultural functions. In the thirties, she was a lightning rod for debates over morality and censorship. In the seventies, the complexity of her portrayal of gender made her a controversial figure for both the gay rights and feminist movements. Curry not only analyzes the symbolic roles West has occupied, arguing that the entertainer represents a carefully orchestrated transgression of race, class, and gender expectations, she also illustrates how icons of pop culture often distill contested social issues, serving diverse and even contradictory political functions. A pithy and innovative look at what Mae West means, Too Much of a Good Thing is must reading for fans, film buffs, and anyone interested in how popular culture evolves and circulates in the United States.

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