3. Narrative, Comedy, and Melodrama

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction: Feminist Film Theory and the Question of Laughter 1
5. Part One: The Unruly Woman
6. 1. Pig Ladies, Big Ladies, and Ladies with Big Mouths: Feminism and the Carnivalesque 25
7. 2. Roseanne: The Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess 50
8. Part Two: Female Unruliness in Narrative Cinema
9. 3. Narrative, Comedy, and Melodrama 95
10. 4. Romantic Comedy and the Unruly Virgin in Classical Hollywood Cinema 116
11. 5. Professor-Heroes and Brides on Top 145
12. 6. Dumb Blondes 169
13. 7. Masculinity and Melodrama in Postclassical Romantic Comedy 191
14. Afterword: Shape-Shifting 213
15. Notes 221
16. Works Cited 247
17. Index 261