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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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  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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  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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  Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences

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  Emanuelle Wessels Augsburg College

  January 14, 2013

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  Girls, Ancillary Media, and Audiences irony girls controversy branding audiences Curator's Note From Lena Dunham’s body to the show’s alleged lack of diversity, Girls has garnered much attention for its representational politics. Moreover, Dunham, an ...
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  The Appropriate Response: Complexities of Girls’ Reception in Gawker Recaps

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  Jennifer Lynn Jones Indiana University

  January 16, 2013

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  The Appropriate Response: Complexities of Girls’ Reception in Gawker Recaps Recaps postmodern John Cook girls Gawker Curator's Note John Cook’s Gawker recaps of Girls rely on postmodern elements of parody and pastiche to critique the show and its com ...
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  Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls

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  Raechel Tiffe University of Minnesota

  January 15, 2013

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  Voice of a Generation?: The Potential of Authenticity in HBO’s Girls The View hipster racism girls authenticity Curator's Note In the pilot episode of HBO’s Girls, the protagonist Hannah (played by the show’s creator, Lena Dunham) proclaims that she’ ...
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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up

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  Morgan Blue The University of Texas at Austin

  September 11, 2012

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  Dance, Girl, Dance!: Performance & Class Mobility in Disney’s Shake It Up TV Pilots Shake It Up performance girls Disney dance class Curator's Note In the first few minutes of the pilot for Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up, lead characters, Rock ...
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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 ...