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Gidget - Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise (Paperback)
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Gidget - Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise (Paperback)
Series: Cinema and Youth Cultures
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Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise examines the
multiplicity of books, films, TV shows, and merchandise that make
up the transmedia Gidget universe from the late 1950s to the 1980s.
The book examines the Gidget phenomenon as an early and unique teen
girl franchise that expands understanding of both teen girlhood and
transmedia storytelling. It locates the film as existing at the
historical intersection of numerous discourses and events,
including the emergence of surf culture and surf films; the rise of
California as signifier of modernity and as the epicentre of white
American middle-class teen culture; the annexation of Hawaii; the
invention of Barbie; and Hollywood's reluctant acceptance of teen
culture and teen audiences. Each chapter places the Gidget text in
context, looking at production and reception circumstances and
intertexts such as the novels of Francoise Sagan, the Tammy series,
La Dolce Vita, and The Patty Duke Show, to better understand
Gidget's meaning at different points in time. This book explores
many aspects of Gidget, providing an invaluable insight into this
iconic franchise for students and researchers in film studies,
feminist media studies, and youth culture.
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