| Description |
1 online resource (442 pages) |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; PART I; AMERICAN ADOLESCENCE: GIRLS' MAINSTREAM TERRAIN; ONE; RACE, CLASS, GENDER, SEXUALITY AND CITIZENSHIP; TWO; COMING-OF-AGE NARRATIVES; PART II; NEGOTIATING AMERICAN CULTURE: TRAVERSING OUR OWN PATHS; THREE; OPPOSITIONAL POWER AND EMPOWERMENT; FOUR; SEX AND SEXUALITY; CONCLUSION; FILMOGRAPHY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; List of Names and Terms |
| Summary |
Although the ""coming of age"" story has been a popular film plot for decades, producers have only recently realized the commercial potential of targeting films to adolescent girls. Movies like Clueless, Legally Blonde and Mean Girls have been successfully marketed to teenage girls, as have several well-known independent films. Important as both cultural indicators and catalysts, these films simultaneously demonstrate pop culture''s influence on girls'' films, and the ability of girls'' films to affect pop culture and perceptions of girlhood. This critical survey of film and the modern girl co |
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Print version record |
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Girls in motion pictures.
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Teenage girls in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Girls in motion pictures
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Teenage girls in motion pictures
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476608587 |
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147660858X |
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