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Author: Elizabeth Teets (Edited By)
Release Date: January 16, 2024
Publisher: Read Furiously
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 142
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, Indigo, BAM, Bookshop, Powell's, Blackwells
Description:
A love letter to women-led comedies.
Based on Elizabeth Teets’s program series called “Isn’t She Great” at the
Hollywood Theater, this anthology is a collection of the most beloved
female-centric comedies and the audiences who adore them. From 9 to 5 to
Romy and Michele to the iconic Elle Woods, the essays in this
collection build on our devotion to these films and continue the
conversation around funny women and how these characters have shaped so
many talented writers.
As Elizabeth Teets reminds us, there is a specific power in a funny
woman. A woman who dares to laugh at the world and at herself. These
movies made us strong and smart and sexy (and bend and snap a lot). At
the end of the day, we remind ourselves when the world only tries to let
us have a little - a little money, a little confidence, a little joy - to go
out and get the whole enchilada.
Isn’t She Great is for anyone who loves movies and feels the glamour in pink. Cult cinema and film criticism will never be the same.
“You Must Always Have Faith in Yourself - Legally Blonde, and My Mommy, and Me”
Legally Blonde was the first movie I saw my mother truly love. This was not to say she didn’t love other movies - there were many she did. Growing up, my mother had a small collection of VHS tapes she loved that she would let me watch regularly. But none of them compared for how much she seemed to love Legally Blonde.
Despite her very refined palette for cinema, I don’t think she ever considered film an interest of hers. And although she may not have realized it, my mother had curated in our living room a sophisticated collection of the finest 90s and early aughts cult classics. We had copies of Mermaids, She’s All That, A Very Brady Sequel, and Tommy Boy. But Legally Blonde, oh she loved that movie.
At ten years old, I took notice of how Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, Legally Blonde’s perky sorority girl, made my mother laugh. I love anything that makes my mother laugh. After seeing my mother latch onto a piece of candy pink cinema filled with outfits, I too became obsessed with the film. As a future comedian, I paid attention to anything that made my favorite person laugh.
I also love Legally Blonde - it is undoubtedly my favorite movie. I know every line, every outfit, and every major decision I have ever made in my life has been while driving in my 2006 Kia Optima while listening to the absolute banger of a soundtrack. Elle Woods is the best character within modern cinema. She is layered, complicated, fabulously styled, unable to be bamboozled and full of grit. I was lucky enough to grow up with my own Elle Woods, my mom..
…At my mother’s beginning, or at least the beginning as it concerns me, her daughter who watched her every move, she was a single mom who had me at nineteen. This meant as a child I got to see her early twenties, her own Elle Woods years. Although she was never a member of a sorority with a tiny dog, I can’t imagine people talked to her that differently. Aren’t all stereotypes we put onto women pretty much the same?
Elizabeth
Teets is an Oregon born writer, comedian, screenwriter, and fashionista.
Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Repeller,
Catapult, Reductress, and more. She lives in Los Angeles where she is
waiting for her group chat to respond.
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Isn't She
Great Contributors
Megan J.
Kaleita is an
essayist and memoirist living in the PAC Northwest. Her debut essay collection,
This Book is Brought to You By My Student Loans is available
through Clash Books. Her work has appeared in Ravishly, Hello Horror,
Daily Drunk Mag, Luna Station Quarterly, and Lady Spike. Do not ask
her for coffee. She won’t get it for you.
Samantha
Mann is a Brooklyn
based essayist. She is the author of Putting Out: Essays on Otherness.
She edited the anthology, I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy.
Meg
Walters is a
Canadian-British writer currently living in London. Her writing has appeared in
GQ, The Daily Beast, Vulture, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and others. She is a
great lover of classic films, rom-coms, period dramas, pop culture, books
and style and tries to write about them all as often as possible. Find
her on Twitter @wordsbymeg
Toju
Adelaja is a
Nigerian-British writer and chick-flick connoisseur. Her work has appeared in
publications such as Glamour U.K. and Black Ballad.
Ella Gale
is a writer,
director, and comedian in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in
McSweeney’s, Reductress, and the Hard Times.
Michele
Theil is a
journalist focusing on culture, race, LGBT+ issues and investigative pieces.
She has been published in VICE, Insider, Glamour, and others. She watches
all the Bring It On movies at least once a year.
Lana
Schwartz is a writer
who was born and raised in New York City, where she continues to live
today. Her work has been published on The New Yorker, McSweeney’s,
Shondaland, Glamour, InStyle, and more. Her book “Build Your Own
Romantic Comedy” was released by Ulysses Press in March 2020. For more
about Lana - as well as instructions on how to pronounce her name - visit
www.lanalikebanana.com.
Yaël Krinsky is writer and comedian based in Boston, where she works in TV and Film Production. She holds a writing and performance degree from Bard College. She currently lives with her dog Midge.
(1) winner
will receive a finished copy of ISN'T SHE GREAT - US Only.
Ends January 31st, midnight EST.
Tour Schedule:
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