| Description |
387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Contemporary film and television series
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Contemporary film and television series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Moviegoing, "home-leaving," and the problematic girl protagonist of The Wizard of Oz / Ina Rae Hark -- "Don't understand, my own darling": the girl grows up in Shadow of a Doubt / Murray Pomerance -- Gidget goes hysterical / Allison Whitney -- Girls on the edge of the Reagan Era / Chuck Kleinhans -- Sorrowful black death is not a hot ticket / bell hooks -- Clueless in the neocolonial world order / Gayle Wald -- Girlfriends and girl power: female adolescence in contemporary U.S. cinema / Mary Celeste Kearney -- Performing gender in Boys Don't Cry / Linda Dittmar -- Fille Fatale: regulating images of adolescent girls, 1962-1996 / Kristen Hatch -- Maiden voyage: from Edwardian girl to millennial woman in Titanic / Lori Liggett -- Pretty in pink? John Hughes reinscribes daddy's girl in homes and schools / Ann De Vaney -- Pleasures and problems of the "angry girl" / Kimberley Roberts -- The nerdly girl and her beautiful sister / Timothy Shary -- Maternity, murder, and monsters: legends of babysitter horror / Miriam Forman-Brunell -- Bubblegum and heavy metal / Frances Gateward -- The pixel visions of Sadie Benning / Christie Milliken -- She's murder: pretty poisons and bad seeds / Steven Woodward -- "Til death do us part: identity and friendship in Heavenly Creatures / Corinn Columpar -- Too much of something is bad enough: success and excess in Spice World / Cynthia Fuchs. |
| Subject |
Girls in motion pictures.
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Girls in motion pictures. |
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Teenage girls in motion pictures.
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Teenage girls in motion pictures. |
| Added Author |
Gateward, Frances K.
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Pomerance, Murray, 1946-
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| ISBN |
0814329187 paperback alkaline paper |
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0814329179 alkaline paper |
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