...J. E. Smyth Although The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (dir. Nunnally Johnson, US, 1956) ostensibly focuses on Tom Rath (Gregory Peck), the production of the screenplay and shooting largely revolved around actress Jennifer Jones's characterization of Betsy Rath, a stay-at-home wife and mother...

...Amelia Jones Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Presumed Innocent (1990) “She Was Bad News”: Male Paranoia and the Contemporary New Woman Amelia Jones “She was bad news . . .” In Presumed Innocent (1990), this phrase seems intended to vindicate...

...Jennifer Lynn Jones; Brenda R. Weber This article examines the fame‐hungry reality celebrity mother as a template for a new form of the female grotesque emerging within the postmillennial mediascape. Using a model of transmediation, the article argues that understanding this figure requires...

...Amelia Jones Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art , Griselda Pollock. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. Visual and Other Pleasures , Laura Mulvey. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989. Love for Sale: The Words and Pictures...

... in unexpected places. It is an experiment in fantasy and a fantasy of experimentation. It is about Grace Jones. Futures New and Old Looking back on the strange career of this singer, actress, model, and decadent, I am repeatedly drawn to two particular moments. The first is Jones’s live cover...

... on Hysteria refers at once to the investigation of Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, and to that of the filmmaker. The case involved a highly intelligent young woman who developed, in connection with her father’s fatal illness, what Ernest Jones called a “museum of [hysterical] symptoms”: “paralysis...

... of the performance document’s status is developed by Amelia Jones in her article “ ‘Presence’ in Absentia: Experiencing Performance as Documentation,” in which she writes that perfor- mance, whether live or documented, cannot provide the viewer with unproblematized access to the artist’s experience...

..., and the discourses present merely an accumulation insofar as the film refuses any hierarchization. This can be seen most clearly in the debate constituted by the statements of Ashley, Cobden, Harney, Jones and Mayhew, and the discussions between Anne and Martha, on the Ten Hours...

.... And while Butler’s notion 01-Wark.sh iv&1-33=34pg 4/18/01 3:54 PM Page 4 4 • Camera Obscura of gender performativity has already been profitably employed by critics and historians like Peggy Phelan, Amelia Jones, and Rebecca Schneider as a way...

... the viewer “all-too-conscious” of the process, it also acknowledges the spectatorial pleasure elicited by the erotic scenario on-screen. The art historian Amelia Jones has addressed the role of female narcissism and viewing pleasure in contemporary women’s body art in several published texts...

... relates to con- temporary discourses on youth culture, crime and “postmodern” af- fectlessness. Both Sharon Willis’s “Special Effects: Sexual and Social Difference in Wild at Heart” and Amelia Jones’s ‘‘ ‘She Was Bad News’: Male Paranoia and the Contemporary New Woman” polemically crit...

... Iyer Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/What Is behind the Stardom? Madhuri Dixit, the Production Number, and the Construction of the Female Star Text in 1990s Hindi Cinema. No. 90: pp. 129 – 59 Jennifer Lynn Jones and Brenda R. Weber Reality Moms, Real Monsters: Transmediated...

... through the develop- ment of an alternative gendered geography; the city of women is neatly interlocked within an expansive, though fragmented, city of men. Like Plato’s split beings seeking their other halves, the “good” men — Marlowe, Bernie Ohls (Regis Toomey), and Harry Jones (Elisha Cook Jr...

... north and northeast. However, historians such as Jacqueline Jones, James Grossman and Lawrence Levine have argued that the Great Migration was motivated by a number of interrelated factors, including the desire for better education, political franchise, equal treatment...

... by Lacan for this work.” In an important discussion of the differences in the positions taken up by Jones and Freud on sexuality, she draws attention to the theoretical implications of phallocentrism (Freud) and biological determinism, i.e. concentricity, (Jones) for feminists...

..., she has an even more interesting story. According to Village Voice columnist Lisa Jones, Dr. Darlene Pow- ell-Hopson, a clinical psychologist and an African American woman herself, was brought on at Mattel as a consultant in order to help them with their new product...

... will they be divas but they’ll make their divadom a many-splendored thing. Well, two can play that game. Just to use some of the fig- ures represented in this issue: Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West (“power diva Courtney Love (“martyr Grace Jones (“arty  Julie Andrews (“stealth Joan Van Ark...

...Figure 1. In a segment directed by Paula Jones, Mere draws spiritual power from her Nanny's tokotoko stick and simultaneously galvanizes the women of her community, who gather around her as she confronts her abuser. Waru (2017) ...

... in 1988, such melo- dramatic confrontations and physical reactions became standard fare on talk shows in the 1990s. This emphasis on melodrama has meant a shift from social contro- versies to domestic controversies. Hosts like Ricki Lake, Richard Bey, Jenny Jones, and Jerry Springer have...