Chick Flicks (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Women at the Movies
Redaktion: Ferriss, Suzanne; Young, Mallory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde, chick flicks have long been both championed and vilified by women and men, scholars and popular audiences. Like other forms of chick culture, which the editors define as a group of mostly American and British popular culture media forms focused primarily on twenty- to thirtysomething, middle-class-and frequently college-educated-women, chick flicks have been accused of reinscribing traditional attitudes and reactionary roles for women. On the other hand, they have been embraced as pleasurable and potentially liberating entertainments, assisting women in negotiating the challenges of contemporary life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135895945
• Artikelnr.: 38255398

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Ferriss is Professor of English at Nova Southeastern University. She has co-edited two volumes on the cultural study of fashion: On Fashion and Footnotes: On Shoes. She is also co-author of A Handbook of Literary Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 2002). Most recently, she co-edited Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction (Routledge, 2006) with Mallory Young. Mallory Young is Professor of English and French at Tarleton State University. She has published on a variety of topics, from the Odyssey to Texas women's literature and, with Suzanne Ferriss, has co-authored several articles on chick culture. She and Ferriss co-edited Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction (Routledge, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

CHICK FLICKS: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AT THE MOVIES Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young
Introduction: Chick Flicks 1 and Chick Culture Maureen Turim
Women's Films: Comedy
Drama
Romance 41 Suzanne Ferriss
Fashioning Femininity in the Makeover Flick 67 Carol M. Dole
The Return of Pink: Legally Blonde
Third-Wave 91 Feminism
and Having It All Lisa M. Rüll
A Soundtrack for Our Lives: Chick Flick Music 120 Deborah Barker
The Southern-Fried Chick Flick: Postfeminism 142 Goes to the Movies Margaret Tally
Something's Gotta Give: Hollywood
Female Sexuality 182 and the 'Older Bird' Chick Flick Lisa Henderson
Simple Pleasures: Lesbian Community and Go Fish 201 Myra Mendible
Chica Flicks: Postfeminism
Class
and the Latina 244 American Dream Mallory Young
Chic Flicks: The New European Romance 271 Holly Hassel
'The Babe Scientist' Phenomenon: The Illusion of Inclusion 292 in 1990s American Action Films Kate Waites
Babes in Boots: Hollywood's Oxymoronic Warrior Woman 312 Karen Hollinger
Afterword: Once I Got Beyond the Name Chick Flick 337 Selected Filmography 355 Selected Bibliography 367 Contributors' Notes 378