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Chick flicks : contemporary women at the movies /
With 11 original essays, this edited volume examines 'chick flicks' within the larger context of 'chick culture' as well as women's cinema. The essays consider chick flicks from a variety of angles, touching on issues of film history, female sexuality, femininity, age, race,...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: chick flicks and chick culture / Suzanne Ferris and Mallory Young
- Women's films: comedy, drama, romance / Maureen Turim
- Fashioning femininity in the makeover flick / Suzanne Ferris
- The return of pink: Legally blonde, third-wave feminism, and having it all / Carol M. Dole
- A soundtrack for our lives: chick-flick music / Lisa M. Rüll
- The southern-fried chick flick: postfeminism goes to the movies / Deborah Parker
- Something's gotta give: Hollywood, female sexuality and the "older bird" chick flick / Margaret Tally
- Simple pleasures: lesbian community and Go fish / Lisa Henderson
- Chick flicks: postfeminism, class, and the Latina American dream / Myra Mendible
- Chick flicks: the new European romance / Mallory Young
- The "babe scientist" phenomenon: the illusion of inclusion in 1990s American action films / Holly Hassel
- Babes in boots: Hollywood's oxymoronic warrior woman / Kate Waites
- Afterword: once I got beyond the names chick flick / Karen Hollinger.