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Neo-feminist cinema : girly films, chick flicks and consumer culture /
What lies behind current feminist discontent with contemporary cinema? Through a combination of cultural and industry analysis, Hilary Radner's Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture shows how the needs of conglomerate Hollywood have encouraged an emphasis on consum...
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New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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Table of 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.