American sweethearts
Subtitle: teenage girls in twentieth-century popular culture
By: Ilana Nash.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Girls in literature; Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism; Teenage girls -- Books and reading -- United States; Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character); Teenage girls in popular culture; Teenage girls in motion pictures; Teenage girls in literature
Description: Discusses the role of teenage girls in popular culture, including films, comics, and television, in the U.S. since the 1930s, examining figures such as Nancy Drew, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, critiquing the oversexualization and infantilization of the image of young women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Radical notions : Nancy Drew and her readers, 1930-1949; title: Pretty baby : Nancy Drew goes to Hollywood; title: Delightfully dangerous girls in the 1940s; title: The postwar fall and rise of teen girls.