387 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: Girls II Women -- 1. Moviegoing, "Home-leaving," and the Problematic Girl -- Protagonist of The Wizard of Oz -- Ina Rae Hark 25 -- 2. "Don't understand, my own darling": The Girl Grows Up -- in Shadow of a Doubt -- Murray Pomerance 39 -- 3. Gidget Goes Hysterical -- Allison Whitney 55 -- 4. Girls on the Edge of the Reagan Era -- Chuck Kleinhans 73 -- 5. Sorrowful Black Death Is Not a Hot Ticket -- bell hooks 91 -- 6. Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order -- Gayle Wald 103 -- 7. Girlfriends and Girl Power: Female Adolescence in -- Contemporary U.S. Cinema -- Mary Celeste Kearney 125 -- Cast Types -- 8. Performing Gender in Boys Don't Cry -- Linda Dittmar 145 -- 9. Fille Fatale: Regulating Images of Adolescent Girls, -- 1962-1996 -- Kristen Hatch 163 -- 10. Maiden Voyage: From Edwardian Girl to Millennial -- Woman in Titanic -- Lori Liggett 183 -- 11. Pretty in Pink? John Hughes Reinscribes Daddy's Girl -- in Homes and Schools -- Ann De Vaney 201 -- 12. Pleasures and Problems of the "Angry Girl" -- Kimberley Roberts 217 -- 13. The Nerdly Girl and Her Beautiful Sister -- Timothy Shary 235 -- Beyond Innocence -- 14. Maternity, Murder, and Monsters: Legends of -- Babysitter Horror -- Miriam Forman-Brunell 253 -- 15. Bubblegum and Heavy Metal -- Frances Gateward 269 -- 16. The Pixel Visions of Sadie Benning -- Christie Milliken 285 -- 17. She's Murder: Pretty Poisons and Bad Seeds -- Steven Woodward 303 -- 18. 'Til Death Do Us Part: Identity and Friendship in -- Heavenly Creatures -- Corinn Columpar 323 -- 19. Too much of something is bad enough: Success and -- Excess in Spice World -- Cynthia Fuchs 343 -- Contributors 361 -- Index 365

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