ISBN:
9780415972789
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (400 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Girls Make Media
DDC:
302.2308352
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
More girls are producing media today than at any other point in U.S. history, and they are creating media texts in virtually every format currently possible--magazines, films, musical recordings, and websites. Girls Make Media explores how young female media producers have reclaimed and reconfigured girlhood as a site for radical social, cultural, and political agency. Central to the book is an analysis of Riot Grrrl--a 1990s feminist youth movement from a fusion of punk rock and gender theory-and the girl power movement it inspired. The author also looks at the rise o
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Girls Make Media""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Producing Girls""; ""I Contexts""; ""1 Delightful Employment: Girls� Cultural Production Prior to the Late Twentieth Century""; ""II Sites""; ""2 Brought to You by Girl Power: Riot Grrrl�s Networked Media Economy""; ""3 Girls� Media Education: Critical Viewing or Control of the Image?""; ""III Texts""; ""4 Grrrl Zines: Exploring Identity, Transforming Girls� Written Culture""; ""5 Developing the Girl�s Gaze: Female Youth and Film Production""
Description / Table of Contents:
""6 Cybergurls: Female Youth, Digital Fluencies, and Web Design""""Conclusion: No Small Thing""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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