Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks
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 t
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Sarah-Mai Dang
Gossip, Women, Film, and Chick Flicks
Sarah-Mai Dang Berlin, Germany
ISBN 978-1-137-56017-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56018-6
ISBN 978-1-137-56018-6 (eBook)
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To Caroline Wunderlich
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It all began in 2009 with my friend Caroline Wunderlich persuading me to watch so-called chick flicks. This “women’s genre” had become the research object of my dissertation on film, feminism, and experience, which I completed at the Department of Films Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in 2014. This book is based on a translation of chapter 3. First and foremost, my sincere thanks go to my supervisors, who supported me throughout my years as doctoral candidate and research assistant at Freie Universität Berlin. Hermann Kappelhoff believed in the happy ending of the dissertation no matter what detour the project took. I am highly grateful for his generous help, advice, and patience. My discussions with Sabine Nessel, my second supervisor, and her persistent inquiries have strengthened my line of argument and made the thesis more precise. This book was also shaped by the many discussions in the film studies colloquium facilitated by Hermann Kappelhoff. I particularly would like to thank my colleagues Sarah Greifenstein, Hauke Lehmann, Michael Lück, and Jan Bakels for their critical feedback on earlier drafts of the German version. I also wish to t
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