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2016 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Introduction
verfasst von : Fiona Handyside, Kate Taylor-Jones
Erschienen in: International Cinema and the Girl
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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As Marnina Gonick, Emma Renold, Jessica Ringrose, and Lisa Weems note, there is a “current proliferation of images and narratives of girls and girlhood in popular culture.”1 In a similar vein, Sarah Projansky argues that “since approximately 1990, girls have appeared often and everywhere in U.S. media culture.”2 She supports this claim by tracking the number of girls to appear on the cover of mass market magazines such as Newsweek and Time, and analyzing the most discussed of the “literally hundreds of films featuring girls as central characters” released in US cinemas in the period 2000–2009. For John Hartley, commenting on the contemporary public sphere and its expression in the press, “a new figure has appeared in this already feminized, privatized, suburbanized and sexualized landscape; the figure of the young girl.” He considers that girls are “up to their ankles, if not their necks, in public signification, becoming objects of public policy, public debate, the public gaze.”3