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Queer girls and popular culture : reading, resisting, and creating media

Title
Queer girls and popular culture : reading, resisting, and creating media / Susan Driver.
Author
Driver, Susan.
Publication
New York : Peter Lang, [2007], ©2007.

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Description
x, 269 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"Queer Girls and Popular Culture explores relationships between media representations and the creative media receptions of lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. Drawing upon examples from a wide range of media including television, film, magazines, Internet, and music, this book pays critical attention to the emergence of visual images and narratives of girls desiring girls. Framed as a dialogue, the voices of queer girls are interpreted in response to their increasing public visibility and commodification within mainstream media as well as the development of alternative popular cultural engagements. This book combines youth and media studies with feminist and queer theories, bridging previously separate areas of theory and research to understand queer girls as dynamic cultural subjects."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Mediated youth ; v. 1
Uniform Title
Mediated youth ; v. 1.
Subject
  • Lesbian teenagers
  • Teenage girls in popular culture
  • Gays in popular culture
  • Mass media and teenagers
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-263) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Introducing queer girls and popular culture -- Ch. 2. Queering girl studies : dialogical languages and performative desires -- Ch. 3. Willow's queer transformations on Buffy the vampire slayer : coming of age, coming out, becoming powerful -- Ch. 4. Screening queer girls : complex intimacies within independent films -- Ch. 5. Uneasy pleasures : reading and resisting lesbian magazines -- Ch. 6. Performing communities online : creative spaces of self-representation -- Ch. 7. "Your music changed my life. I needed something queer" : musical passion, politics, and communities -- Ch. 8. Conclusion : the imaginative participation of queer girls in popular culture.
ISBN
  • 9780820479361 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 0820479365 (pb : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006100658
OCLC
  • ocm76937430
  • 76937430
  • SCSB-5333286
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries