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More girls are producing media today than at any other point in U.S. history, and they are creating media texts in virtually every format currently possible--magazines, films, musical recordings, and websites. Girls Make Media explores how young female media producers have reclaimed and reconfigured girlhood as a site for radical social, cultural, and political agency. Central to the book is an analysis of Riot Grrrl--a 1990s feminist youth movement from a fusion of punk rock and gender theory-and the girl power movement it inspired. The author also looks at the rise o

This book is an essential text for those interested in gender and media studies, its primary topics, debates, and theoretical approaches. The primary objective of this collection is to expand readers' knowledge of how gender operates within media culture through engagement with foundational writings as well as more contemporary research in this field. Taking a multiperspectival approach that considers gender broadly and examines media texts alongside their production and consumption, The Gender and Media Reader enables readers' critical thinking about how gender is constructed, contested, and subverted in different sites within media culture. Along with the main introduction, individual section introductions facilitate readers' understanding of the development of gender and media studies by contextualizing the various topics, debates, and theoretical approaches that have shaped it, as well as by highlighting current trends. --from back cover

This essay analyzes the development of Girls' Studies as a field of critical inquiry. Although scholars from across the academy and around the world currently conduct girl-centered research, considerable barriers prevented the coalescence of Girls' Studies until the late twentieth century. The first section of the essay explores the marginalization of girls in youth research and feminist scholarship prior to the 1990s, two fields where one would expect girls, girlhood, and girls' culture to be of interest. The second section focuses on transformations within and outside the academy that led to the rapid growth of girl-centered research in recent years. The third section provides a map of Girls' Studies scholarship to date, including a survey of topics explored in specific disciplines and those that deserve more attention, as well as an analysis of broader trends in such research across the academy over the past fifteen years.

"With contributions from 30 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies. Chapters address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches, like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection, which also addresses emergent technologies and new research tools in such areas as software studies, gaming, and digital humanities. Each chapter includes an intellectual history of a particular method or approach, a discussion of why and how it was used to study a particular medium or media, relevant examples of influential work in the area, and an in-depth review of a case study drawn from the author's own research. Together, the chapters in this collection give media critics a complete toolbox of essential critical media studies methodologies"--

We are proud to introduce this special issue that was inspired by the 2019 International Girlhood Studies Association (IGSA) conference at the University of Notre Dame (IGSA@ND). At that time, we were not yet acquainted with each other beyond exchanging pleasantries and knowing of each other's academic profiles. Yet we came together as three co-editors and scholars committed not only to the diversification of girlhood studies but also to the larger project of social justice for all. We want to promote such work through this special issue and, in the process, expand perspectives and practices within the field of girlhood studies, as many before us have done.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Gender, Sexuality, and Media: Audience and Spectatorship -- PART I Revisiting Film Subjects and the Pleasures of Cinema -- ONE Feminine Discourse in Blackmail -- TWO Venus in Furs: Masoch, Deleuze, and the Films of von Sternberg -- THREE "You Don't Know What It Is to Look White and Be Black": The Black Press Mediates Race in the Classic Hollywood Studio System, 1930–1940 -- Joe Dallesandro—A "Him" to the Gaze: Flesh, Heat, and Trash -- PART II Speaking Up and Sounding Out 75 -- FIVE Unheard Sexualities?: Queer Theory and the Soundtrack -- SIX The Articulation of Body and Space in Speak Body -- SEVEN "I Kinda Prefer to Be a Human Being": Roseanne Barr and Defining Working-Class Feminism and Authorship -- EIGHT Riot Grrrl: It's Not Just Music, It's Not Just Punk -- PART III Queering Media -- NINE Soap Slash: Gay Men Rewrite the World of Daytime Television Drama -- TEN From Excess to Access: Televising the Subculture -- ELEVEN Pronoun Trouble: The "Queerness" of Animation -- PART IV Containment and Its Critiques -- TWELVE Of Fleiss and Men: The Transgressions and Containment of a Hollywood Madam -- THIRTEEN Out on Stage: LGBT Politics of Entertainment Award Shows -- FOURTEEN Lesbian Cop, Queer Killer: Leveraging Black Queer Women's Sexuality on HBO's The Wire -- PART V Fandom and Transmedia -- FIFTEEN Resurrection of the Vampire and the Creation of Alternative Life: An Introduction to Dark Shadows Fan Culture -- SIXTEEN The Rumors Are True!: Gossip Girl and the Cooptation of the Cult Fan -- SEVENTEEN The Trouble with Transmediation: Fandom's Negotiation of Transmedia Storytelling Systems -- Contributors -- Index