Type of Document Master's Thesis Author McCord, Mary Larken Author's Email Address larkenmccord@gmail.com URN etd-11182008-162945 Title “SO VERY,” “SO FETCH”: CONSTRUCTING GIRLS ON FILM IN THE ERA OF GIRL POWER AND GIRLS IN CRISIS Degree Master of Arts Department Women's Studies Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Amira Jarmakani Committee Chair Marian Meyers Committee Member Mary Hocks Committee Member Keywords
- Girl studies
- Teenagers on film
- Girl power
- Girls in crisis
- Film studies
Date of Defense 2008-11-12 Availability unrestricted Abstract In the mid-1990s, two discourses of girlhood emerged in both the popular and academic spheres. Consolidated as the girl power discourse and girls in crisis discourse, the tension between these two intertwined discourses created a space for new narratives of female adolescence in the decade between 1995 and 2005. As sites of cultural construction and representation, teen films reveal the narratives of girlhood. The films under consideration serve as useful exemplars for an examination of how such discourses become mainstreamed, pervading society’s image of female adolescence.Files
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