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Spectacular Girls - Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture (Paperback)
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Spectacular Girls - Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture (Paperback)
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Winner of the 2015 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the National
Communication Association As an omnipresent figure of the media
landscape, girls are spectacles. They are ubiquitous visual objects
on display at which we are incessantly invited to look.
Investigating our cultural obsession with both everyday and
high-profile celebrity girls, Sarah Projanskyuses a queer,
anti-racist feminist approach to explore the diversity of girlhoods
in contemporary popular culture.The book addresses two key themes:
simultaneous adoration and disdain for girls and the pervasiveness
of whiteness and heteronormativity. While acknowledging this
context, Projansky pushes past the dichotomy of the "can-do" girl
who has the world at her feet and the troubled girl who needs
protection and regulation to focus on the variety of alternative
figures who appear in media culture, including queer girls, girls
of color, feminist girls, active girls, and sexual girls, all of
whom are present if we choose to look for them. Drawing on examples
across film, television, mass-market magazines and newspapers, live
sports TV, and the Internet, Projansky combines empirical analysis
with careful, creative, feminist analysis intent on centering
alternative girls. She undermines the pervasive "moral panic"
argument that blames media itself for putting girls at risk by
engaging multiple methodologies, including, for example, an
ethnographic study of young girls who themselves critique media.
Arguing that feminist media studies needs to understand the
spectacularization of girlhood more fully, she places active,
alternative girlhoods right in the heart of popular media culture.
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