Kathleen Rowe Karlyn

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Kathleen Rowe Karlyn (* 1947 ) is an American film scholar and English scholar who has dealt with film, television and issues of gender relations in particular.

In 1996 she received the Emily Toth Award from the American Culture / Popular Culture Association for her book The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter . Her essay on Roseanne Barr ( Roseanne: unruly woman as domestic goddess ), which was first published in 1990 in the scientific journal Screen , is now part of many anthologies on the subject of women in the media. In both of these, she deals with female figures in the media who show behavior with typically male connotations on television. She addresses the behavior of the environment towards women who are publicly aggressive, humorous, angry and reckless, and thus succeed - examples on which she worked out her theses in addition to Roseanne Barr also Murphy Brown , Mae West or Miss Piggy . Rowe thus expanded the field of feminist film theory beyond classic Hollywood films to include contemporary television. The woman at the top describes her as a positive counter-image to other more widespread female figures, in which these often only form the framework for male actors.

In the follow-up book Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen. Karlyn explores the relationship between American teenage girls and their parents and how they are portrayed in the media. She is particularly interested in the influence of movements like Girl Power in the 1990s, or not.

Karlyn received her PhD in Telecommunications and Film from the University of Oregon in 1992 , and has taught in the Department of English since 1994. From 2010 to 2012 she was director of the first program in film studies at the University of Oregon.

Publications

  • Roseanne: unruly woman as domestic goddess Screen (1990) 31 (4): 408-419
  • The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter . Austin: University of Texas Press Film Series, 1995
  • Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen. Austin: University of Texas Press Film Series, 2011

Remarks

  1. ↑ as stated in the catalog of the Library of Congress
  2. ^ A b University of Oregon: Kathleen Karlyn
  3. ^ A b University of Pennsylvania Cinema Studies: Kathleen Rowe Karlyn: Feminist Dialectics and Unrepentant Mothers, Or, What I Didn't Say and Why
  4. ↑ Julia Himberg: The Return of Rosie: OWN, Celebrity, and the Branding of Basic Cable m Flow TV February 13, 2012
  5. ↑ Susan Knobloch: The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter Film Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Winter, 1996-1997), pp. 58-60.
  6. ^ Mantra Roy: Book Review of Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers , The Examiner May 13, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Rowe Karlyn, Kathleen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American English and film scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1947