Girls Make Media

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-97277-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

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 of girls-only media education programs, and the creation of girls' studies.

This book will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary female youth in today's media culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kearney, Mary Celeste

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Producing Girls I. Contexts 1. Delightful Employment: Girls’ Cultural Production Prior to the Late Twentieth Century II. Sites 2. Brought to You by Girl Power: Riot Grrrl’s Networked Media Economy 3. Girls’ Media Education: Critical Viewing or Control of the Image? III. Texts 4. Grrrl Zines: Exploring Identitiy, Transforming Girls’ Written Culture 5. Developing the Girl’s Gaze: Female Youth and Film Production 6. Cybergurls: Female Youth, Digital Fluencies, and Web Design

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Celeste Kearney is Assistant Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin.