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Subject(s)

• Preteen girls [Browse]
• Celebrities in popular culture [Browse]
• Feminist theory [Browse]

Series

• Library of gender and popular culture ; 1. [More in this series]
• Library of gender and popular culture ; 1 [More in this series]

Summary note

A powerful female, preadolescent, consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becoming more visible in popular culture since the 1990s. Yet the cultural anxiety that this has caused has received scant academic attention. In Tweenhood, Melanie Kennedy rectifies this and examines mainstream, pre-adolescent girls' films, television programmes and celebrities from 2004 onwards, including A Cinderella Story, Hannah Montana and Camp Rock. Her book forges a dialogue between post-feminism, film and television, celebrity and most importantly; the figure of the tween. Kennedy examines how these media texts, which are so key to tween culture, address and construct their target audience by helping them to 'choose' an appropriately feminine identity. Tweenhood then, she argues, is transient and a discursive construct whose unpacking highlights the deification of celebrity and femininity within its culture.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, discography, and index.

Source of description

Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 2 April 2021).

ISBN

9780755699995

OCLC

1151194190

Doi

10.5040/9780755699995

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