By Sarah-Mai Dang
This ebook addresses the connection among gossip, ladies, and picture just about the style of chick flicks. providing case stories at the movies Easy A (Will Gluck 2010)and Emma (Douglas McGrath 1996), Dang demonstrates that rumour performs a defining position within the staging of those motion pictures and therefore within the movie adventure. whereas the shortcoming of women’s voices within the basic public sphere is still a subject, the feminine voice is especially found in the modern woman’s movie. In its research of gossip, this booklet specializes in a sort of verbal exchange that has frequently been assigned to girls and is as a result skipped over. Dang offers a theoretical framework for the certainty of speech acts within the renowned, but undertheorized, style of chick flicks.
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Siegel developed the term gossip image to describe how images and the representation of stars are created through commentary, conjectures, and the pleasure of embellishment and fabulation. Siegel locates a utopian dimension in this type of image circulation, which allows for the creation of alternative identities and a queer counterpublic beyond a mass media 3 EASY A—“A IS FOR AWESOME” 39 reality (see Siegel 2010: 5–8). On the one hand, Siegel’s research looks at the interaction with images of stars in film, videos, and performances, in which the images develop, change, and form anew.
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6). The girls’ bathroom proves to be only a semiprivate space as Mary Ann, the chair of the school’s Christian Club, suddenly emerges from one of the bathroom stalls. Mary Ann’s unexpected appearance highlights gossip’s uncontrollable spread and power. The film underscores on a narrative as well as on an aesthetic level that it is difficult to grasp who communicates—or will communicate—with whom and how gossip will spread. It also remains unclear when and where messages are created and how they are passed on.