All about Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels

by Judith Roof

Inviting us to "wallow in the middle," Judith Roof offers a fresh, inventive look at female comic secondary characters who, though never on center stage, play an indispensable role in enriching and complicating the course of the narrative. Paying attention to these characters shows that narrative is not always as straight as it might seem.

Focusing on such superb comic seconds as Eve Arden, Thelma Ritter, Rosalind Russell, and Whoopi Goldberg,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025207047X
• ISBN13: 9780252070471
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.6"