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Title:

Chick flicks : contemporary women at the movies / edited by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Motion pictures for women.
Women in motion pictures.

Other Authors:

Ferriss, Suzanne, 1962-
Young, Mallory, 1952-

Notes:

Includes filmography: p. [233]-238. Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-244) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0203935551 (e-book)
9780203935552 (e-book)
0415962560 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415962568 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415962552 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415962551 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)155128342

LCCN:

2007028439

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

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

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)