Bibliograph

Chick flicks, contemporary women at the movies, edited by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young

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Chick flicks, contemporary women at the movies, edited by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes filmography: p. [233]-238Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Chick flicks

Nature of contents

bibliographyfilmographies

Oclc number

155128342

Responsibility statement

edited by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young

Sub title

contemporary women at the movies

Table Of Contents

Introduction: chick flicks and chick culture / Suzanne Ferris and Mallory Young -- Women's films: comedy, drama, romance / Maureen Turim -- Fashioning femininity in the makeover flick / Suzanne Ferris -- The return of pink: Legally blonde, third-wave feminism, and having it all / Carol M. Dole -- A soundtrack for our lives: chick-flick music / Lisa M. Rull -- The southern-fried chick flick: postfeminism goes to the movies / Deborah Parker -- Something's gotta give: Hollywood, female sexuality and the "older bird" chick flick / Margaret Tally -- Simple pleasures: lesbian community and Go fish / Lisa Henderson -- Chick flicks: postfeminism, class, and the Latina American dream / Myra Mendible -- Chick flicks: the new European romance / Mallory Young -- The "babe scientist" phenomenon: the illusion of inclusion in 1990s American action films / Holly Hassel -- Babes in boots: Hollywood's oxymoronic warrior woman / Kate Waites -- Afterword: once I got beyond the names chick flick / Karen Hollinger

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