Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks

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Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks is written by Sarah-Mai Dang and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137560185 (ISBN 10) and 9781137560186 (ISBN 13).

This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks. Presenting two case studies on the films Easy A (Will Gluck 2010) and Emma (Douglas McGrath 1996), Dang demonstrates that hearsay plays a defining role in the staging of these films and thus in the film experience. While the lack of women’s voices in the general public sphere remains an issue, the female voice is very present in the contemporary woman’s film. In its analysis of gossip, this book focuses on a form of communication that has traditionally been assigned to women and is consequently disregarded. Dang provides a theoretical framework for the understanding of speech acts in the popular, yet undertheorized, genre of chick flicks.