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Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture (ePub eBook)


Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture (ePub eBook)

eBook by Kennedy, Melanie

Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture (ePub eBook)

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ISBN:
9781788316644
Publication Date:
30 Oct 2018
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Imprint:
I.B. Tauris
Pages:
224 pages
Format:
eBook
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Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture (ePub eBook)

Description

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.

Contents

List of Figures Series Editors' Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Who is the Tween? 1. The Reconciliation of Femininity and Feminism 2. Narratives of Celebrity 3.Narratives of Father-Daughter Transformation 4. Growing Up Female with Miley Cyrus, Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana 5. Falling in Love with the Jonas Brothers Conclusion: Doing Tweenhood Filmography and Teleography Discography Index

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