Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture, Volume 2 (Mediated Youth)

__Mediated Girlhoods__, Volume 2 is an anthology devoted to scholarship on girls’ media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes studies of girls’ media representations, girls’ media consumption, and girls’ media production. In an attempt to push research on girls’ media culture in new directions, it responds to criticisms of previous research in this field by including studies of girls who are not white, middle-class, heterosexual, cisgender, or Western. Approaching girlhood, media, and methodology broadly, __Mediated Girlhoods__ includes studies of such previously unexplored topics as girls’ mimetic communication via Tumblr, the girlyboy in independent Filipino cinema, Qatari girls’ film production, trans girlhood in advertising, Canadian girls’ feminist activism, and the new girl subject imagined in Disney’s __Cinderella__ (2015). Mediated Girlhoods, Volume 2 is appropriate for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, particularly graduate seminars exploring girlhood, media, and culture; youth media; youth cultures; and gender and media; and undergraduate courses housed within the following departments: media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, women’s and gender studies, sociology, literature, history, education, and psychology. Cover 1 Contents 7 List of Illustrations 9 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction (Morgan Genevieve Blue / Mary Celeste Kearney) 13 Part 1: Representation and Identity 23 Chapter One: Girlyboys on Film: Queering the Frame(s) (Curran Nault) 25 Chapter Two: “Just Having Fun Being One of the Girls”: Jazz Jennings, Trans Girl Citizenship, and Clean & Clear’s “See the Real Me” Campaign (Rachel Reinke) 43 Chapter Three: Girls Worth Looking At: Surveillance, Race, and Class in Contemporary Teen Girl TV (Cara Dickason) 61 Chapter Four: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue: The Make-Do Girl of Cinderella (2015) (Katie Kapurch / Jon Marc Smith) 79 Part 2: Reception, Community, Activism 97 Chapter Five: “Suitable for Us Girls”: Subjectivity and Community in the Victorian Periodical Press (Kristine Moruzi / Natalie Coulter) 99 Chapter Six: Exhibiting Emotion: The Female Fan Performance of Affective Agency in the Tween “Midnight” Premiere Screening (Margaret Rossman) 115 Chapter Seven: Fangirling and Mimetic Language: The Power of Feels, Reclaiming Emotion, and Fangirl Performativity on Tumblr (Helena Louise Dare-Edwards) 131 Chapter Eight: Girlfriends Go Green: Disney Channel, Corporate Responsibility, and Girls’ Citizenship (Morgan Genevieve Blue) 149 Chapter Nine: Crop Tops and Solidarity Selfies: The Disruptive Politics of Girls’ Hashtag Feminism (Jessalynn Keller) 169 Part 3: Production and Authority 187 Chapter Ten: Gender Identity, Cultural Authority, and Musicianship Among Tween Girls (Sarah Dougher / Diane Pecknold) 189 Chapter Eleven: Mediating the Majlis: Arab Girls’ Documentaries About “Women’s Gatherings” in Qatar (Kirsten Pike) 205 Chapter Twelve: Melting the Celluloid Ceiling: Training Girl Filmmakers, Revolutionizing Media Culture (Mary Celeste Kearney / Twenty Female Film Students) 225 Contributors 245 Index 249 Mediated Girlhoods, Volume 2 is an anthology devoted to scholarship on girls' media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes studies of girls' media representations, girls' media consumption, and girls' media production. In an attempt to push research on girls' media culture in new directions, it responds to criticisms of previous research in this field by including studies of girls who are not white, middle-class, heterosexual, cisgender, or Western. Approaching girlhood, media, and methodology broadly, Mediated Girlhoods includes studies of such previously unexplored topics as girls' mimetic communication via Tumblr, the girlyboy in independent Filipino cinema, Qatari girls' film production, trans girlhood in advertising, Canadian girls' feminist activism, and the new girl subject imagined in Disney's Cinderella (2015). 0Mediated Girlhoods, Volume 2 is appropriate for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, particularly graduate seminars exploring girlhood, media, and culture; youth media; youth cultures; and gender and media; and undergraduate courses housed within the following departments: media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, women's and gender studies, sociology, literature, history, education, and psychology