Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines: Contemporary Screen Images of Women

By Elisabeth Krimmer and Susanne Kord

Book Overview

Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines offers an entertaining and critical look at the representation of women in recent movies. Written in a refreshingly accessible style, the book analyzes over thirty box-office hits. The authors explore the screen personae of top stars such as Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan, and Ren e Zellweger, as well as independent movie queens like Parker Posey and TV heroines like Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A must-read book for all film buffs who are tired of the mixed gender messages of mainstream culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742537099
• ISBN13: 9780742537095
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Eye-opener

This book is amazing. I usually watch movies with the action just washing over me, not paying too much attention to details. After reading this book I actually went back and watched some movies (like "Two Weeks Notice") again and suddenly saw them in a totally different light. Thank you for the eye-opener. In future I will pay more attention to the hidden agenda in "chick-flicks". Also thank you for mentioning my alltime favorite actress, the great Judy Dench. It is nice to know that there are others out there who appreciate class.

Fun, fun book

This book is a star. Hugely entertaining, smart, sassy and great fun. A pageturner and an eye-opener.

From a world where a Brazilian can change your life...

If you've given up wondering how and why George Bush got re-elected during such bad economic and political times, turn your attention to a world where Gwyneth Paltrow says that a Brazilian wax "Changed her life" and junior high girls fellate "hello." This book is nicer than I am, and makes a little sense out of all this. I'm astounded by my own fascination and love of bubbly starlets. And as I prepare for my forties, I do so wish that there were older women on screen whose foreheads moved and they didn't have to laugh through a taught "O"-shaped hole in their face (poor, beloved Farrah Fawcett). What have we done to ourselves? Well, read this book for starters. And forget about the PW article above. This review is much more Birkenstock-wearing and hairy-legged than the book is. And girls, you can run but you can't hide; getting older makes feminists of us all. (Cybill Shepherd, etc.)