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02473aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 B7B4C298B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190806010914 008 160629t20192019enka bkq 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1780768427 020 $a 9781780768427 035 $a (OCoLC)1081125786 040 $a EYM $b eng $e rda $c EYM $d U3W $d OCLCO $d YDXIT $d BDX $d GUA $d GSU $d UAB $d SILO 050 4 $a HQ798 K46 2019 100 1 $a Kennedy, Melanie, $e author. 245 10 $a Tweenhood : $b femininity and celebrity in tween popular culture / $c Melanie Kennedy. 264 1 $a London : $b I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, $c 2019. 300 $a xiii, 204 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Library of gender and polular culture ; $v 1 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194), filmography (195-198), discography (pages 199-200) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: who is the tween? -- The reconciliation of femininity and feminism -- Narratives of celebrity -- Narratives of father-daughter transformation -- Growing up female with Miley Cyrus, Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana -- Falling in love with the Jonas Brothers -- Conclusion: doing tweenhood. 520 $a A powerful female, pre-adolescent, consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becoming more visible in popular culture since the 1990s. Yet the cultural anxiety that this has caused has received scant academic attention. In Tweenhood, Melanie Kennedy rectifies this and examines mainstream pre-adolescent girls' films, television programmes and celebrities from 2004 onwards, including A Cinderella story, Hannah Montana and Camp Rock. Her book forges a dialogue between postfeminism, film and television, celebrity and most importantly, the figure of the tween. Kennedy examines how these media texts, which are so key to tween culture, address and construct their target audience by helping them to 'choose' an appropriately feminine identity. Tweenhood then, she argues, is transient and a discursive construct whose unpacking highlights the deification of celebrity and femininity within its culture. 650 0 $a Preteen girls. 650 0 $a Celebrities in popular culture. 650 0 $a Feminist theory. 830 0 $a Library of gender and popular culture; $v 1. 941 $a 2 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20191002014017.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905041401.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B7B4C298B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search