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Title:

Sugar, spice, and everything nice : cinemas of girlhood / edited by Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance.

Publisher:

Wayne State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

387 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Girls in motion pictures.
Teenage girls in motion pictures
Films.
Meisjes.
Vrouwelijkheid.
Filmtheorie.
Filles au cinéma.
Adolescentes au cinéma.

Other Authors:

Gateward, Frances K.
Pomerance, Murray, 1946-

Notes:

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.

Series:

Contemporary film and television series

ISBN:

9780814329184 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814329187 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814329177 (alk. paper)
0814329179 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2001004774

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)