TY - BOOK AU - Projansky,Sarah ED - Project Muse. TI - Spectacular girls: media fascination and celebrity culture SN - 9780814764794 AV - P96.W6 P88 2014 U1 - 302.230835/2 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Mass media and girls KW - Celebrities in mass media KW - Women in mass media KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: finding alternative girlhoods -- Pint-sized and precocious: the girl star in film history -- "It's like floating" or battling the world: mass magazine cover girls -- What is there to talk about? twenty-first-century girl films -- "I'm not changing my hair": Venus Williams and live tv's racialized struggle over athletic girlhood -- Sakia Gunn is a girl: queer African American girlhood in local and alternative media -- "Sometimes I say cuss words in my head": the complexity of third-grade media analysis -- Conclusion: girlhood rethought UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814764794/ ER -