Date of Award
11-19-2008
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Women's Studies
First Advisor
Amira Jarmakani - Chair
Second Advisor
Mary Hocks
Third Advisor
Marian Meyers
Abstract
In the mid-1990s, two discourses of girlhood emerged in both the popular and academic spheres. Consolidated as the girl power discourse and girls in crisis discourse, the tension between these two intertwined discourses created a space for new narratives of female adolescence in the decade between 1995 and 2005. As sites of cultural construction and representation, teen films reveal the narratives of girlhood. The films under consideration serve as useful exemplars for an examination of how such discourses become mainstreamed, pervading society’s image of female adolescence.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1062220
Recommended Citation
McCord, Mary Larken, ""So Very," "So Fetch": Constructing Girls on Film in the Era of Girl Power and Girls in Crisis." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2008.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1062220