Girls on Film Course Reader

Table of Contents

Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, "What is Feminism" in Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2000).

Gayle Wald, "Just a Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 23.3 (1998).

Cathryn Bailey, "Making Waves and Drawing Lines: The Politics of Defining the Vicissitudes of Feminism" in Third Wave Feminisms, a special issue of Hypatia ed., Jacquelyn N. Zita 12.3 (Summer 1997): 17-28.

Catherine M. Orr, "Charting the Currents of the Third Wave" in Third Wave Feminisms, a special issue of Hypatia ed., Jacquelyn N. Zita 12.3 (Summer 1997): 29-45.

Gayle Wald, "Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order" Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 42 (1999).

Angela Curran, "Consuming Doubts: Gender, Class, and Consumption in Ruby in Paradise and Clueless" in David Desser and Garth S. Jowett eds. Hollywood Goes Shopping (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000): 222-250.

Catherine L. Preston, "Hanging on a Star: The Resurrection of the Romance Film in the 1990s" in Wheeler Winston Dixon ed., Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000):227-243.

Wheeler Winston Dixon, "‘Fighting and Violence and Everything, That’s Always Cool’: Teen Films in the 1990s" in Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000):125-143.

Jennifer Pastor, Jennifer McCormick, and Michelle Fine, "Makin’ Homes: An Urban Girl Thing" in Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and Niobe Way, eds., Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities (New York: New York University Press, 1996).

Tricia Rose, "Race, Class, and the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Rewriting Black Female Teenage Sexuality in the Popular Imagination" Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir 1.3 7/31/1998.

Andre Willis, "A Womanist Turn on the Hip-Hop Theme: Leslie Harris’s Just Another Girl on the IRT" in Joseph K. Adjaye and Adrianne R. Andrews eds., Language, Rhythm, & Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-First Century (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).

Aaron Baker, "A New Combination: Women and the Boxing Film. An Interview with Karyn Kusama" in Cineaste 25.4 (2000): 22-26.

B. Ruby Rich, "Take It Like a Girl" in Sight and Sound 11.2 (February 2001): 16-18.

Rosa Linda Fregoso, "Re-imagining Chicana Urban Identities in the Public Sphere, Cool Chuca Style" in Caren Kaplan, Norma Alarcon, and Minoo Moallem, eds, Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999).

Helene A. Shugart, Catherine Egley Waggoner, D Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, "Mediating Third-Wave Feminism: Appropriation as Postmodern Media Practice" Critical Studies in Mass Communication 18.2 (2001): 194-210.

Mark Dery, "Have an Angst Day: The Scream Meme" in the pyrotechnic insanitarium: american culture on the brink (New York: Grove Press, 1999): 45-59.

Anne Millard Daugherty, "Just a Girl: Buffy as Icon" in Roz Kaveney ed., Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel (London: Tauris Parke, 2002): 148-165.