
Chick Flicks
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A companion to the successful anthology Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction, this edited volume consists of 11 original essays, prefaced by an introduction situating chick flicks within the larger context of chick culture as well as women's cinema. The essays consider chick flicks from a variety of angles, touching on issues of film history, female sexuality (heterosexual and homosexual), femininity, female friendship, age, race, ethnicity, class, consumerism, spectatorship, pleasure and gender definition. An afterword by feminist film theorist Karen Hollinger considers the chick flick's transformation from the woman's films of the '40s to the friendship films of the '80s and those of the "return to the classics" trend of the '90s, while highlighting the value of the volume's contributions to contemporary debates and sketching possibilities for further study.
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Mallory Young is Professor of English and French at Tarleton State University. She has published on a variety of topics, from the Odyssey to Texas women's literature and, with Suzanne Ferriss, has co-authored several articles on chick culture. She and Ferriss co-edited Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction (Routledge, 2006).
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young, Introduction: "Chick Flicks 1
and Chick Culture"
Maureen Turim, "Women's Films: Comedy, Drama, Romance" 41
Suzanne Ferriss, "Fashioning Femininity in the Makeover Flick" 67
Carol M. Dole, "The Return of Pink: Legally Blonde, Third-Wave 91
Feminism, and Having It All"
Lisa M. Rüll, "A Soundtrack for Our Lives: Chick Flick Music" 120
Deborah Barker, "The Southern-Fried Chick Flick: Postfeminism 142
Goes to the Movies"
Margaret Tally, "Something's Gotta Give: Hollywood, Female Sexuality 182
and the 'Older Bird' Chick Flick"
Lisa Henderson, "Simple Pleasures: Lesbian Community and Go Fish" 201
Myra Mendible, "Chica Flicks: Postfeminism, Class, and the Latina 244
American Dream"
Mallory Young, "Chic Flicks: The New European Romance" 271
Holly Hassel, "'The Babe Scientist' Phenomenon: The Illusion of Inclusion 292
in 1990s American Action Films"
Kate Waites, "Babes in Boots: Hollywood's Oxymoronic Warrior Woman" 312
Karen Hollinger, Afterword: "Once I Got Beyond the Name Chick Flick" 337
Selected Filmography 355
Selected Bibliography 367
Contributors' Notes 378
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