Title: American sweethearts
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.
Subjects: Teenage girls in popular culture, Girls in literature, Teenage girls, History and criticism, Books and reading, Nancy Drew (Fictitious character), American Young adult fiction, American fiction, Teenage girls in motion pictures, Teenage girls in literature, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Adolescent girls, Culture in motion pictures
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century