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Author Radner, Hilary.

Title Neo-feminist cinema : girly films, chick flicks and consumer culture / Hilary Radner
Published New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : reassessing feminism and popular culture -- Neo-feminism and the rise of the single girl -- Pretty woman (1990) and the girly film : defining the format -- Romy and Michele's high school reunion (1997) : female friendship in the girly film -- Legally blonde (2001) : "a pink girl in a brown world" -- Jennifer Lopez : neo-feminism and the crossover star -- Maid in manhattan (2003) : a new fairy tale -- Hit movies for "femmes" -- The devil wears Prada (2006) : the fashion film -- Sex and the city : the movie (2008) : the female event film -- Something's gotta give (2003) : Nancy Meyers, neo-feminist auteur -- Conclusion : post-feminism and neo-feminism
Summary Neo-Feminist Cinema examines how Hollywood has responded to women's changing social roles. Radner pays particular attention to how the contemporary woman's film portrays what some have called postfeminism and what the author redefines as neo-feminism, rep
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Feminism and motion pictures.
Women in motion pictures.
Motion pictures for women -- United States
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Feminism and motion pictures
Motion pictures for women
Women in motion pictures
Frauenfilm
Feminismus
Film
Frau Motiv
Frauenemanzipation -- Film -- USA -- Geschichte 1990 ff.
Film -- Frauenemanzipation -- USA -- Geschichte 1990 ff.
Frau -- Film -- USA -- Geschichte 1990 ff.
Film -- Frau -- USA -- Geschichte 1990 ff.
Frauenfilm.
Feminismus.
United States
USA
USA.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010009654
ISBN 9780203855218
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