Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies

by Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young

Book Overview

From An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde, "chick flicks" have long been both championed and vilified by women and men, scholars and popular audiences. Like other forms of "chick culture," which the editors define as a group of mostly American and British popular culture media forms focused primarily on twenty- to thirtysomething, middle-class-and frequently college-educated-women, chick flicks have been accused of reinscribing traditional attitudes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415962560
• ISBN13: 9780415962568
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"