I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film

by Ellen Tremper

Book Overview

Have you ever wondered why there are so many "dumb blonde" jokes--always about women? Or how Ivanhoe's childhood love, the"flaxen Saxon" Rowena, morphed into Marilyn Monroe? Between that season in 1847 when readers encountered Becky Sharp playing the vengeful Clytemnestra--about to plunge a dagger into Agamemnon--and the sunny moment in 1932 when moviegoers watched Clark Gable plunge Jean Harlow's platinum-tressed head into a rain barrel, the playing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813925207
• ISBN13: 9780813925202
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"