With 11 original essays, this edited volume examines "chick flicks" from An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde within the larger context of "chick culture" as well as women¿s cinema.
With 11 original essays, this edited volume examines "chick flicks" from An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde within the larger context of "chick culture" as well as women¿s cinema.
Suzanne Ferriss is Professor of English at Nova Southeastern University. She has co-edited two volumes on the cultural study of fashion: On Fashion and Footnotes: On Shoes. She is also co-author of A Handbook of Literary Feminisms (Oxford University Press, 2002). Most recently, she co-edited Chick Lit: The New Woman¿s Fiction (Routledge, 2006) with Mallory Young. Mallory Young is Professor of English and French at Tarleton State University. She has published on a variety of topics, from the Odyssey to Texas women¿s literature and, with Suzanne Ferriss, has co-authored several articles on chick culture. She and Ferriss co-edited Chick Lit: The New Woman¿s Fiction (Routledge, 2006).
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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
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
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