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Contents
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction
Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance 000
Girls II Women
1. Moviegoing, "Home-leaving," and the Problematic Girl Protagonist
of The Wizard of Oz
Ina Rae Hark 000
2. "Don't understand, my own darling": The Girl Grows Up in Shadow
of a Doubt
Murray Pomerance 000
3. Gidget Goes Hysterical
Allison Whitney 000
4. Girls on the Edge of the Reagan Era
Chuck Kleinhans 000
5. Sorrowful Black Death Is Not a Hot Ticket
bell hooks 000
6. Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order
Gayle Wald 000
7. Girlfriends and Girl Power: Female Adolescence in Contemporary
U.S. Cinema
Mary Celeste Kearney 000
Cast Types
8. Performing Gender in Boys Don't Cry
Linda Dittmar 000
9. Fille Fatale: Regulating Images of Adolescent Girls, 19621996
Kristen Hatch 000
10. Maiden Voyage: From Edwardian Girl to Millennial Woman in
Titanic
Lori Liggett 000
11. Pretty in Pink?: John Hughes Reinscribes Daddy's Girl in Homes
and Schools
Ann De Vaney 000
12. Pleasures and Problems of the "Angry Girl"
Kimberley Roberts 000
13. The Nerdly Girl and Her Beautiful Sister
Timothy Shary 000
Beyond Innocence
14. Maternity, Murder, and Monsters: Legends of Babysitter Horror
Miriam Forman-Brunell 000
15. Bubblegum and Heavy Metal
Frances Gateward 000
16. The Pixel Visions of Sadie Benning
Christie Milliken 000
17. She's Murder: Pretty Poisons and Bad Seeds
Steven Woodward 000
18. Til Death Do Us Part: Identity and Friendship in
Heavenly Creatures
Corinn Columpar 000
19. Too much of something is bad enough: Success and Excess in
Spice World
Cynthia Fuchs 000
Index 000