Chick Flicks : Contemporary Women at the Movies

ISBN-13: 9780415962568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str.

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Chick flicks have been both championed and vilified by women and men, scholars and popular audiences. This title contains essays that consider chick flicks from various angles, touching on issues of film history, female sexuality (heterosexual and homosexu

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CHICK FLICKS: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AT THE MOVIES Table of Contents Acknowledgments vi Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young, Introduction: Chick Flicks 1 and Chick Culture Maureen Turim, Women’s Films: Comedy, Drama, Romance 41 Suzanne Ferriss, Fashioning Femininity in the Makeover Flick 67 Carol M. Dole, The Return of Pink: Legally Blonde, Third-Wave 91 Feminism, and Having It All Lisa M. Rüll, A Soundtrack for Our Lives: Chick Flick Music 120 Deborah Barker, The Southern-Fried Chick Flick: Postfeminism 142 Goes to the Movies Margaret Tally, Something’s Gotta Give: Hollywood, Female Sexuality 182 and the ‘Older Bird’ Chick Flick Lisa Henderson, Simple Pleasures: Lesbian Community and Go Fish 201 Myra Mendible, Chica Flicks: Postfeminism, Class, and the Latina 244 American Dream Mallory Young, Chic Flicks: The New European Romance 271 Holly Hassel, ‘The Babe Scientist’ Phenomenon: The Illusion of Inclusion 292 in 1990s American Action Films Kate Waites, Babes in Boots: Hollywood’s Oxymoronic Warrior Woman 312 Karen Hollinger, Afterword: Once I Got Beyond the Name Chick Flick 337 Selected Filmography 355 Selected Bibliography 367 Contributors’ Notes 378