Overview
- focuses on subject matters of gossip and chick flicks, which are mostly disregarded and yet undertheorized
- shows that gossip is a productive perspective for analyzing chick flicks which emphasize verbal expression
- explores gossip both as a form of perception in order to relate to the world and as a mechanism of power that creates and structures society
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Book Title: Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks
Authors: Sarah-Mai Dang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56018-6
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56017-9Published: 30 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56018-6Published: 21 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 75
Number of Illustrations: 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Film Theory, Feminism, Genre, Popular Culture , Culture and Gender, Women's Studies