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Chick Flicks - Contemporary Women at the Movies (Paperback)
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Chick Flicks - Contemporary Women at the Movies (Paperback)
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From An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde, "chick flicks" have
long been both championed and vilified by women and men, scholars
and popular audiences. Like other forms of "chick culture," which
the editors define as a group of mostly American and British
popular culture media forms focused primarily on twenty- to
thirtysomething, middle-class-and frequently
college-educated-women, chick flicks have been accused of
reinscribing traditional attitudes and reactionary roles for women.
On the other hand, they have been embraced as pleasurable and
potentially liberating entertainments, assisting women in
negotiating the challenges of contemporary life. A companion to the
successful anthology Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction, this
edited volume consists of 11 original essays, prefaced by an
introduction situating chick flicks within the larger context of
chick culture as well as women's cinema. The essays consider chick
flicks from a variety of angles, touching on issues of film
history, female sexuality (heterosexual and homosexual),
femininity, female friendship, age, race, ethnicity, class,
consumerism, spectatorship, pleasure and gender definition. An
afterword by feminist film theorist Karen Hollinger considers the
chick flick's transformation from the woman's films of the '40s to
the friendship films of the '80s and those of the "return to the
classics" trend of the '90s, while highlighting the value of the
volume's contributions to contemporary debates and sketching
possibilities for further study.
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