Chick Flicks

Ferriss, Suzanne; Young, Mallory

doi:10.4324/9780203935552

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Chick Flicks

Radner

2016

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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The film genre known as the “chick flick” refers very broadly to films targeting female audiences. More specifically, it refers to successful popular movies made during the late twentieth and early twenty‐first centuries, largely romantic comedies, that are ironic and self‐conscious in tone, highlight fashion and consumer culture more generally as necessary to femininity, and promote heterosexuality and marriage. These films endorse some aspects of second‐wave feminism, without affirming the movement as a whole; as a consequence they are often characterized as postfeminist or neofeminist.

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Chick Flicks

Radner

2016

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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The Subversion of the Male Tradition in Crime Fiction: Liane Moriarty’s Little Lies

Álvarez

2018

Domestic Noir

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Recovering contemporary genre histories – the development of chick lit as seen through the internet archive’s wayback machine and wikipedia’s history page

Folie

2021

Int J Digit Humanities

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In the perception of literary scholars, the investigation of genre histories is still closely linked to ‘offline’ archival work. However, the Internet has been publicly accessible since 1991, and over the last thirty years, numerous new literary genres have emerged. They have often been proclaimed, defined, spread, marketed, criticized, and even pronounced dead online. By now, a great deal of this digital material is said to have disappeared. What many scholars do not consider, however, is that parts of the web are archived, for example by the Internet Archive and Wikipedia, which make their archives publicly available via the Wayback Machine and the history page respectively. This makes it possible to track early online definitions of contemporary genres and their development. In this paper, I will use the chick lit genre, which emerged in the second half of the 1990s, as a case study to show the benefits of including web archives in the reconstruction of contemporary genre histories. An analysis of both the first extensive and long-running fan websites, which are now offline but well-documented in the Internet Archive, and the history page of the Wikipedia article on chick lit will challenge some of the narratives that have long dominated chick lit research.

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Chick Flicks

Cited by 26 publications

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Chick Flicks

Chick Flicks

The Subversion of the Male Tradition in Crime Fiction: Liane Moriarty’s Little Lies

Recovering contemporary genre histories – the development of chick lit as seen through the internet archive’s wayback machine and wikipedia’s history page

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