Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice

Cinemas of Girlhood

Edited by Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance

Cloth - 9780814329177
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Paper - 9780814329184
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Published 2002
Size: 6 x 9, Pages: 344

Subjects: Film and Television: Theory

Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series


Description

In examining the construction of girlhood from many angles, this collection of essays not only captures the richness of meaning behind "girl films," but also explores the recent resurgence of youth-oriented cinema and the relationship of young female view

Published by Wayne State University Press

Author(s)

Other Books by Frances Gateward: Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth,

Other Books by Murray Pomerance: Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth,

Reviews

"Of all the blind spots that exist in film scholarship, the lack of serious analyses of young women in the cinema has been one of the most glaring. Gateward and Pomerance have done an extraordinary job of bringing together diverse perspectives on girls in film from Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to Sadie Benning's Pixelvision experimental autobiographies. This anthology fills gaps in feminist film criticism, film history, cultural studies, and women's studies, and it is certain to be a welcome addition in libraries and classrooms everywhere."

— Gina Marchetti, Associate Professor, Dept. of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College