ISBN:
0415972779
,
0415972787
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9781280809484
,
9781135474720
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 384 p)
,
ill
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24 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Girls Make Media
DDC:
302.230835/2
Keywords:
Mass media and girls
Abstract:
More girls are producing media today than at any other point in history, and they are using virtually every format currently possible to do so. Tracing the sites in U.S. society where girls' media production is currently encouraged and supported, Girls Make Media examines girls' creative expression and identity exploration through the films, zines, and websites they produce. Combining analyses of girl-made media and the communities and social contexts that inspire their creation and facilitate their diffusion, Girls Make Media furthers our understanding of not only contemporary girlhood and gi
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; 6 Cybergurls: Female Youth, Digital Fluencies, and Web Design; Conclusion: No Small Thing; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-353) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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