Spectacular Girls Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture

Name: Spectacular Girls Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture
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ISBN: 9780814724811

ISBN-10: 0814724817

ISBN-13: 9780814724811

Edition: 2014

Authors: Sarah Projansky

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As an omnipresent figure of the media landscape, girls are spectacles. They are ubiquitous visual objects on display at which we are incessantly invited to look. Investigating our cultural obsession with both everyday and high-profile celebrity girls, Sarah Projanskyuses a queer, anti-racist feminist approach to explore the diversity of girlhoods in contemporary popular culture.The book addresses two key themes: simultaneous adoration and disdain for girls and the pervasiveness of whiteness and heteronormativity. While acknowledging this context, Projansky pushes past the dichotomy of the "can-do" girl who has the world at her feet and the troubled girl who needs protection and regulation…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 2/7/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Sarah Projansky is Professor of Film and Media Arts and of Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is author of Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture (also available from New York University Press) and co-editor of Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek .