contemporary women at the movies
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ferriss, Suzanne > (ed.)
- Creator
- Young, Mallory > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Hollinger, Karen
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2008
- Thesaurus
- kunsten, films, latina's, etniciteit, sociale klasse, feminisme, derde feministische golf, seksualiteit, lesbische cultuur, bundel
- Description
- 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. This volume consists of 11 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.