Sugar, spice, and everything nice
Subtitle: cinemas of girlhood
By: edited by Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance.
Contributors: Gateward, Frances K.; Pomerance, Murray, 1946-
Series: Contemporary film and television series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Girls in motion pictures; Teenage girls in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Girls II Women; title: 1. Moviegoing, "Home-leaving," and the Problematic Girl; title: Protagonist of The Wizard of Oz; title: Ina Rae Hark 25; title: 2. "Don't understand, my own darling": The Girl Grows Up; title: in Shadow of a Doubt; title: Murray Pomerance 39; title: 3. Gidget Goes Hysterical; title: Allison Whitney 55; title: 4. Girls on the Edge of the Reagan Era; title: Chuck Kleinhans 73; title: 5. Sorrowful Black Death Is Not a Hot Ticket; title: bell hooks 91; title: 6. Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order; title: Gayle Wald 103; title: 7. Girlfriends and Girl Power: Female Adolescence in; title: Contemporary U.S. Cinema; title: Mary Celeste Kearney 125; title: Cast Types; title: 8. Performing Gender in Boys Don't Cry; title: Linda Dittmar 145; title: 9. Fille Fatale: Regulating Images of Adolescent Girls,; title: 1962-1996; title: Kristen Hatch 163; title: 10. Maiden Voyage: From Edwardian Girl to Millennial; title: Woman in Titanic; title: Lori Liggett 183; title: 11. Pretty in Pink? John Hughes Reinscribes Daddy's Girl; title: in Homes and Schools; title: Ann De Vaney 201; title: 12. Pleasures and Problems of the "Angry Girl"; title: Kimberley Roberts 217; title: 13. The Nerdly Girl and Her Beautiful Sister; title: Timothy Shary 235; title: Beyond Innocence; title: 14. Maternity, Murder, and Monsters: Legends of; title: Babysitter Horror; title: Miriam Forman-Brunell 253; title: 15. Bubblegum and Heavy Metal; title: Frances Gateward 269; title: 16. The Pixel Visions of Sadie Benning; title: Christie Milliken 285; title: 17. She's Murder: Pretty Poisons and Bad Seeds; title: Steven Woodward 303; title: 18. 'Til Death Do Us Part: Identity and Friendship in; title: Heavenly Creatures; title: Corinn Columpar 323; title: 19. Too much of something is bad enough: Success and; title: Excess in Spice World; title: Cynthia Fuchs 343; title: Contributors 361; title: Index 365.