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

Published
New York : Routledge, 2008.
Physical Description
x, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Ferriss, Suzanne, 1962- and Young, Mallory, 1952-

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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. Rüll -- 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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ISBN
9780415962551 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415962552 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780415962568 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0415962560 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780203935552 (e-book)
0203935551 (e-book)
Bibliography Note
Includes filmography: pages [233]-238.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-244) and index.
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