TY  - BOOK
AU  - Driver,Susan
TI  - Queer girls and popular culture: reading, resisting, and creating media 
T2  - Mediated youth
SN  - 0820479365
AV  - HQ76.27.Y68 D75 2007
U1  - 306.76630835 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Lesbian teenagers
KW  - Teenage girls in popular culture
KW  - Gays in popular culture
KW  - Mass media and teenagers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index; Ch. 1; Introducing queer girls and popular culture --; Ch. 2; Queering girl studies : dialogical languages and performative desires --; Ch. 3; Willow's queer transformations on Buffy the vampire slayer : coming of age, coming out, becoming powerful --; Ch. 4; Screening queer girls : complex intimacies within independent films --; Ch. 5; Uneasy pleasures : reading and resisting lesbian magazines --; Ch. 6; Performing communities online : creative spaces of self-representation --; Ch. 7; "Your music changed my life. I needed something queer" : musical passion, politics, and communities --; Ch. 8; Conclusion : the imaginative participation of queer girls in popular culture
N2  - "Queer Girls and Popular Culture explores relationships between media representations and the creative media receptions of lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. Drawing upon examples from a wide range of media including television, film, magazines, Internet, and music, this book pays critical attention to the emergence of visual images and narratives of girls desiring girls. Framed as a dialogue, the voices of queer girls are interpreted in response to their increasing public visibility and commodification within mainstream media as well as the development of alternative popular cultural engagements. This book combines youth and media studies with feminist and queer theories, bridging previously separate areas of theory and research to understand queer girls as dynamic cultural subjects."--BOOK JACKET
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