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Spectacular girls media fascination and celebrity culture

Title
Spectacular girls [electronic resource] : media fascination and celebrity culture / Sarah Projansky.
Author
Projansky, Sarah, 1965-
Publication
New York ; London : New York University Press, [2014]

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Description
1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
Spectacular girls (Online)
Alternative Title
Spectacular girls (Online)
Subject
  • Women in mass media
  • Celebrities in mass media
  • Mass media and girls
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-277) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
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.
LCCN
2013034205
OCLC
ssj0001168567
Author
Projansky, Sarah, 1965-
Title
Spectacular girls [electronic resource] : media fascination and celebrity culture / Sarah Projansky.
Imprint
New York ; London : New York University Press, [2014]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-277) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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