Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Feminist Film Theory and the Question of Laughter
• Part One: The Unruly Woman
  • 1. Pig Ladies, Big Ladies, and Ladies with Big Mouths: Feminism and the Carnivalesque
  • 2. Roseanne: The Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess
• Part Two: Female Unruliness in Narrative Cinema
  • 3. Narrative, Comedy, and Melodrama
  • 4. Romantic Comedy and the Unruly Virgin in Classical Hollywood Cinema
  • 5. Professor-Heroes and Brides on Top
  • 6. Dumb Blondes
  • 7. Masculinity and Melodrama in Postclassical Romantic Comedy
• Afterword: Shape-Shifting
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index

About the Author

A former newspaper reporter and editor, Kathleen Rowe teaches film studies at the University of Oregon, where she is Assistant Professor of English.