Unruly girls, unrepentant mothers
Subtitle: redefining feminism on screen
By: by Kathleen Rowe Karlyn
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780292718333
Subjects: Women in motion pictures; Motion pictures for women; Feminism and motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : bad mothers, angry girls; title: Postfeminism and the third wave : Titanic; title: Trouble in paradise : American beauty and the incest motif; title: Girl world : Clueless, Mean girls, and The Devil wears Prada; title: Final girls and epic fantasies : remaking the world; title: How Reese Witherspoon walks the line; title: Teen-girl melodramas : My so-called life and Thirteen; title: Girls of color : beyond girl world; title: The motherline and a wicked powerful feminism : Antonia's line.