Designing the Teenage Girl

Mary Celeste Kearney is a professor of film, television, and theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Girls Make Media and Gender and Rock and editor of The Gender and Media Reader as well as two volumes of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture and The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice.

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Writing the Teenage Girl: Teen Narrative Design and the New "New Girl" Chapter 2. Redesigning the Teenage Girl: Transindustrial Adaptation and the Evolution of a Stereotype Chapter 3. Teen-Girl In/Visibility: White Design and Black Spectrality Chapter 4. A Second-Floor Room of Her Own: Production Design and Teen-Girl Space Chapter 5. Swinging Teens: Music Design and Teen-Girl Soundscapes Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix A. Short Story Composites Appendix B. Metaproperties Appendix C. Theatrical Adaptations Appendix D. Films Appendix E. Radio Broadcasts Appendix F. Television Programs Appendix G. Comic Book Series Appendix H. Music in Films and Radio Series Notes Index

"Mary Celeste Kearney makes a crucial intervention into both transmedia history as well as teen media studies and the study of girlhoods. In this new work, Kearney's dedicated scholarship and incredibly broad range of research perspectives show a researcher at the top of her field with a command of both theoretical and historical foundations." - Barbara Jane Brickman, author of Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture "Designing the Teenage Girl fills a void in our understanding of how the modern figure of the girl evolved into the form she takes in popular media today. Mary Celeste Kearney is the leading authority in girls' media studies, and her thoroughly researched and well-written book will be required reading not only for girlhood studies scholars but also for media scholars interested in transmedia texts." - Kristen Hatch, author of Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood