Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice:
Cinemas of Girlhood

edited by
Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002

Contents

Frances Gateward and Murray POMERANCE: Introduction

Girls II Women

Ina Rae HARK: Moviegoing, "Home-leaving," and the Problematic Girl Protagonist of The Wizard of Oz
Murray POMERANCE: "Don't understand, my own darling": The Girl Grows Up in Shadow of a Doubt
Allison WHITNEY: Gidget Goes Hysterical
Chuck KLEINHANS: Girls on the Edge of the Reagan Era
bell hooks: Sorrowful Black Death Is Not a Hot Ticket
Gayle WALD: Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order
Mary Celeste KEARNEY: Girlfriends and Girl Power: Female Adolescence in Contemporary U.S. Cinema

Cast Types

Linda DITTMAR: Performing Gender in Boys Don't Cry
Kristen HATCH: Fille Fatale: Regulating Images of Adolescent Girls, 1962-1996
Lori LIGGETT: Maiden Voyage: From Edwardian Girl to Millennial Woman in Titanic
Ann DE VANEY: Pretty in Pink?: John Hughes Reinscribes Daddy's Girl in Homes and Schools
Kimberley ROBERTS: Pleasures and Problems of the "Angry Girl"
Timothy SHARY: The Nerdly Girl and Her Beautiful Sister

Beyond Innocence

Miriam FORMAN-BRUNELL: Maternity, Murder, and Monsters: Legends of Babysitter Horror
Frances GATEWARD: Bubblegum and Heavy Metal
Christie MILLIKEN: The Pixel Visions of Sadie Benning
Steven WOODWARD: She's Murder: Pretty Poisons and Bad Seeds
Corinn COLUMPAR: 'Til Death Do Us Part: Identity and Friendship in Heavenly Creatures
Cynthia FUCHS: Too much of something is bad enough: Success and Excess in Spice World

Contributors
Index