Tweenhood - Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture

Zusatztext Melanie Kennedy's Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture is an enlightening and comprehensive consideration of the tween girl in Anglophone culture and her power as consumer! fan! and media maker in the twenty-first century. In prose that is both incisive and accessible! Kennedy elucidates why the tween is a category of immense importance to feminism and media culture. Informationen zum Autor Melanie Kennedy is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK.A contemporary examination of how the tween is constructed in popular culture. Zusammenfassung A powerful female! pre-adolescent! consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becoming more visible in popular culture since the 1990s. Yet the cultural anxiety that this has caused has received scant academic attention. In Tweenhood ! Melanie Kennedy rectifies this and examines mainstream! pre-adolescent girls' films! television programmes and celebrities from 2004 onwards! including A Cinderella Story (2004)! Hannah Montana (2006) and Camp Rock (2008). Her book forges a dialogue between post-feminism! film and television! celebrity and most importantly; the figure of the tween. Kennedy examines how these media texts! which are so key to tween culture! address and construct their target audience by helping them to 'choose' an appropriately feminine identity. Tweenhood then! she argues! is transient and a discursive construct whose unpacking highlights the deification of celebrity and femininity within its culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresSeries Editors’ ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionWho is the Tween?1. The Reconciliation of Femininity and Feminism2. Narratives of Celebrity3.Narratives of Father–Daughter Transformation4. Growing Up Female with Miley Cyrus, Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana5. Falling in Love with the Jonas BrothersConclusion: Doing TweenhoodFilmography and TeleographyDiscographyIndex...

Product details

• Authors: Melanie Kennedy, Kennedy Melanie
• Assisted by: Claire Nally (Editor), Angela Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781350157439
• ISBN: 978-1-350-15743-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture; Library of Gender and Popular
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / School Age, Films, cinema, Feminism & feminist theory, Material Culture, Gender studies: women, Age groups: children, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General