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Spectacular girls : media fascination and celebrity culture /

"As an omnipresent figure of the media landscape, girls are spectacles. They are ubiquitous visual objects on display at which we are incessantly invited to look. Investigating our cultural obsession with both everyday and high-profile celebrity girls, Sarah Projansky uses a queer, anti-racist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Projansky, Sarah, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Online access: Oxford University Press NYU Scholarship Online.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: finding alternative girlhoods
  • Pint-sized and precocious: the girl star in film history
  • "It's like floating" or battling the world: mass magazine cover girls
  • What is there to talk about? twenty-first-century girl films
  • "I'm not changing my hair": Venus Williams and live tv's racialized struggle over athletic girlhood
  • Sakia Gunn is a girl: queer African American girlhood in local and alternative media
  • "Sometimes I say cuss words in my head": the complexity of third-grade media analysis
  • Conclusion: girlhood rethought.