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  Is the "blogging teen girl" a new TV trope?

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  Amy Hasinoff McGill University

  November 29, 2012

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  a conventional female-centered teen comedy program. Jenna is an outsider(ish) teen girl at the centre of ... heartbreak: “I’ll look back and blog about this when I’m sixteen.” What does this mean for how we think about ...
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  Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  January 14, 2013

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  clever Facebook status updates. A viewer niche is also courted outside of the text, as seen through ...
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  A Meaning of Minority in Girls

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  Ashar Foley SUNY Stony Brook

  January 08, 2013

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  fear of, and possible desire for, AIDS—one she developed after seeing a white woman die of it in ...
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  The Price of Privilege: HBO's Girls and the Logic of Post-

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  Chris Tokuhama University of Southern California

  January 11, 2013

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  the widest audience possible but I think that the more interesting question is to consider just who ... extended adolescence of Hannah Horvath but also, more dangerously, suggests a possible reason why the ...
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  With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  January 27, 2016

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  With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls HBO girls friendship #squadgoals Curator's Note When HBO’s Girls debuted, it depicted a privileged sisterhood. Not only were the stars elite white women, but they also sha ...
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  Taking Stock & Giving Back: Citizenship in Hannah Montana Forever

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  Morgan Blue The University of Texas at Austin

  September 01, 2010

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  Taking Stock & Giving Back: Citizenship in Hannah Montana Forever TV troops Miley Cyrus Hannah Montana girls Disney citizenship Curator's Note In the early episodes of the current and final season of Disney’s Hannah Montana, now optimistically re ...
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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics

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  Maria San Filippo Emerson College

  January 07, 2013

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  Owning Her Abjection: Lena Dunham's Queer Feminist Sexual Politics Catherine Breillat feminist girls HBO Julia Kristeva Lena Dunham nudity queer the abject the body Curator's Note From the 2007 YouTube short featuring her bikini-clad and brushin ...