American Sweethearts Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture by IlanaNash Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2006 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34659-9, ISBN: 0-253-34659-2
"... The Clue in the Diary, The Clue of the Broken Locket, The Message in the
Hollow Oak, The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk, The Clue in the Jewel Box,
The Clue in the Crumbling Wall, The Clue in the Old Album. Tellingly, the
Stratemeyer ..."
American Sweethearts(1st Edition) Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture by IlanaNash Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2005 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21802-5, ISBN: 0-253-21802-0
"Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until the present day, they have appeared in books and films, comics and television, as the embodied fantasies and nightmares of youth, women, and sexual maturation. Looking at such figures as Nancy Drew, Judy Graves, Corliss Archer, Gidget, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Britney Spears, American Sweethearts shows how popular culture has shape ..."
"In Virgin Territory contributors consider virginity as it is produced and marketed in film. With chapters that span a range of periods, genres, and performances, this collection proves that although it seems like an obvious quality at first glance, virginity in film is anything but simple. The essays in Virgin Territory destabilize assumptions about virginity and connect moments of virginity in film to their larger social significance. ..."