Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture

by Sarah Projansky

Book Overview

Winner of the 2015 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the National Communication Association

As an omnipresent figure of the media landscape, girls are spectacles. They are ubiquitous visual objects on display at which we are incessantly invited to look. Investigating our cultural obsession with both everyday and high-profile celebrity girls, Sarah Projanskyuses a queer, anti-racist feminist approach to explore the diversity of girlhoods in contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814724817
• ISBN13: 9780814724811
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"