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    • Author/Creator:Projansky, Sarah, 1965-
    • Title:Spectacular girls [electronic resource] : media fascination and celebrity culture / Sarah Projansky.
    • ISBN:9780814764794
      0814770215
      9780814724811 (pbk : alk. paper)
      9780814770214
    • Published/Created:New York : New York University Press, 2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
    • Physical Description:1 online resource (pages cm)
    • Links:Online book
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    • Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
    • Notes:Description based on print version record.
    • Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
    • Variant and related titles:Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Complete.
      Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Film, Theater and Performing Arts.
      UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
    • Contents:Introduction: finding alternative girlhoods -- Pint-sized and precocious: the girl star in film history -- "It's like floating" or battling the world: mass magazine cover girls -- What is there to talk about? twenty-first-century girl films -- "I'm not changing my hair": Venus Williams and live tv's racialized struggle over athletic girlhood -- Sakia Gunn is a girl: queer African American girlhood in local and alternative media -- "Sometimes I say cuss words in my head": the complexity of third-grade media analysis -- Conclusion: girlhood rethought.
    • Subjects:Celebrities in mass media.
      Mass media and girls.
      Women in mass media.
    • Also listed under:Project Muse.