Mary Celeste Kearney
Biographic Data
| ID | 184629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Celeste Kearney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Celeste |
| FAMILY NAME | Kearney |
| SIGNATURE | KEARNEY M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Call-and-Response
We are proud to introduce this special issue that was inspired by the 2019 International Girlhood Studies Association (IGSA) conference at the University of Notre Dame (IGSA@ND). At that time, we were not yet acquainted with each other beyond exchanging pleasantries and knowing of each other’s academic profiles. Yet we came together as three co-editors and scholars committed not only to the diversification of girlhood studies but also to the larg…
Riot Grrrl
This entry focuses on Riot Grrrl, a feminist punk movement that emerged during the early 1990s in the United States
Mediated Girlhoods
Mediated Girlhoods, is an anthology devoted to scholarship on girls' media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes studies of girls' media representations, girls' media consumption, and girls' media production. In an attempt to push research on girls' media culture in new directions, it responds to criticisms of previous research in this field by including studies of girls who are not white, middle-class, heterosexual, cisgender,…
Girls’ Media Studies
Girls’ media studies is a unique area of feminist media studies that examines the intersecting dimensions of age and gender alongside other identity formations. Girls’ media scholarship covers studies on a diverse range of entertainment media, including film, television, magazines, music, comics, and video games, as well as digital communications technologies, platforms, and practices such as smartphones, social media, and sexting. Many researche…
Craft of Media Criticism
Spectatorship
Mapping New Methodological Approaches to Girls’ Media Studies
Over the past two decades, girls' media studies has developed from a marginalized research interest into an innovative subfield exploring the relationship between girls and media cultures.As girls become increasingly visible within the production, reception, and distribution of cinema, television, and new media, girls' media studies scholars have responded by employing a diverse range of methodological approaches, including discursive and aesthet…
Sparkle
This article aims to broaden critical discussions of postfeminist culture and mediated girlhoods through attention to the visual stylistics operating at their convergence – 'post-girl power' film and television. Complicating Angela McRobbie's theory of postfeminism, this project analyzes the phenomenon of 'sparkle' in contemporary US girls' media. As well it updates Rachel Moseley's pioneering work on luminous aesthetics in teen-girl film and tel…
Tough Girls in a Rough Game
This article examines the production and promotion of A&E's Rollergirls (2006), a US docu-soap featuring the Texas Roller Derby Lonestar Rollergirls (TXRD), the league that revived roller derby as a sport for female amateurs. Focusing on the representation of TXRD skaters in Rollergirls, as well as A&E's promotional campaign for the series, this analysis is contextualized in relation to the role of female athleticism in contemporary US commercial…
Mediated girlhoods
Contents: Mary Celeste Kearney: Introduction: Girls' Media Studies 2.0 - Yuka Kanno: Love and Friendship: Queer Imagination of Japan's Early Girls' Culture - Sarah Nilsen: All-American Girl? Annette Funicello and Suburban Ethnicity - Kirsten Pike: The New Activists: Girls and Discourses of Citizenship, Liberation, and Femininity in Seventeen, 1968-1977 - Kristen Hatch: Little Butches: Tomboys in Hollywood Film - Angharad N. Valdivia: This Tween B…
Pink Technology
Despite feminists' criticisms of “girl games'” gender essentialism in the 1990s, many contemporary manufacturers of children's goods are still relying on traditional gender norms to reach female youth. In an effort to better understand this phenomenon, this article focuses on a more recent slate of girl-oriented consumer electronics: mediamaking gear for girls. Like the “pink software” of the girl games era, much of this “pink technology” relies …
Productive Spaces
Birds on the Wire
This article explores the symbolic relationship of the telephone and teenage girls in mid-twentieth-century U.S. media culture, focusing in particular on the trope of the girl on the phone and its use as a signifier of modern American girlhood. Unpacking this trope's broader social significance, I relate its development to the construction of the telephone as a gendered medium and the emergence of nre form of female subjectivity associated with t…
Recycling Judy and Corliss
Girls, Girlhood and Girls' Studies in Transition . Marion de Ras , Mieke Lunenberg Girl Power
Sparkle
This article aims to broaden critical discussions of postfeminist culture and mediated girlhoods through attention to the visual stylistics operating at their convergence – 'post-girl power' film and television. Complicating Angela McRobbie's theory of postfeminism, this project analyzes the phenomenon of 'sparkle' in contemporary US girls' media. As well it updates Rachel Moseley's pioneering work on luminous aesthetics in teen-girl film and tel…
Tough Girls in a Rough Game
This article examines the production and promotion of A&E's Rollergirls (2006), a US docu-soap featuring the Texas Roller Derby Lonestar Rollergirls (TXRD), the league that revived roller derby as a sport for female amateurs. Focusing on the representation of TXRD skaters in Rollergirls, as well as A&E's promotional campaign for the series, this analysis is contextualized in relation to the role of female athleticism in contemporary US commercial…
Pink Technology
Despite feminists' criticisms of “girl games'” gender essentialism in the 1990s, many contemporary manufacturers of children's goods are still relying on traditional gender norms to reach female youth. In an effort to better understand this phenomenon, this article focuses on a more recent slate of girl-oriented consumer electronics: mediamaking gear for girls. Like the “pink software” of the girl games era, much of this “pink technology” relies …
Birds on the Wire
This article explores the symbolic relationship of the telephone and teenage girls in mid-twentieth-century U.S. media culture, focusing in particular on the trope of the girl on the phone and its use as a signifier of modern American girlhood. Unpacking this trope's broader social significance, I relate its development to the construction of the telephone as a gendered medium and the emergence of nre form of female subjectivity associated with t…
Call-and-Response
We are proud to introduce this special issue that was inspired by the 2019 International Girlhood Studies Association (IGSA) conference at the University of Notre Dame (IGSA@ND). At that time, we were not yet acquainted with each other beyond exchanging pleasantries and knowing of each other’s academic profiles. Yet we came together as three co-editors and scholars committed not only to the diversification of girlhood studies but also to the larg…
Recycling Judy and Corliss
Girls, Girlhood and Girls' Studies in Transition . Marion de Ras , Mieke Lunenberg Girl Power
Recycling Judy and Corliss
Birds on the Wire
This article explores the symbolic relationship of the telephone and teenage girls in mid-twentieth-century U.S. media culture, focusing in particular on the trope of the girl on the phone and its use as a signifier of modern American girlhood. Unpacking this trope's broader social significance, I relate its development to the construction of the telephone as a gendered medium and the emergence of nre form of female subjectivity associated with t…
Productive Spaces
Pink Technology
Despite feminists' criticisms of “girl games'” gender essentialism in the 1990s, many contemporary manufacturers of children's goods are still relying on traditional gender norms to reach female youth. In an effort to better understand this phenomenon, this article focuses on a more recent slate of girl-oriented consumer electronics: mediamaking gear for girls. Like the “pink software” of the girl games era, much of this “pink technology” relies …
Tough Girls in a Rough Game
This article examines the production and promotion of A&E's Rollergirls (2006), a US docu-soap featuring the Texas Roller Derby Lonestar Rollergirls (TXRD), the league that revived roller derby as a sport for female amateurs. Focusing on the representation of TXRD skaters in Rollergirls, as well as A&E's promotional campaign for the series, this analysis is contextualized in relation to the role of female athleticism in contemporary US commercial…
Mediated girlhoods
Contents: Mary Celeste Kearney: Introduction: Girls' Media Studies 2.0 - Yuka Kanno: Love and Friendship: Queer Imagination of Japan's Early Girls' Culture - Sarah Nilsen: All-American Girl? Annette Funicello and Suburban Ethnicity - Kirsten Pike: The New Activists: Girls and Discourses of Citizenship, Liberation, and Femininity in Seventeen, 1968-1977 - Kristen Hatch: Little Butches: Tomboys in Hollywood Film - Angharad N. Valdivia: This Tween B…
Mapping New Methodological Approaches to Girls’ Media Studies
Over the past two decades, girls' media studies has developed from a marginalized research interest into an innovative subfield exploring the relationship between girls and media cultures.As girls become increasingly visible within the production, reception, and distribution of cinema, television, and new media, girls' media studies scholars have responded by employing a diverse range of methodological approaches, including discursive and aesthet…
Sparkle
This article aims to broaden critical discussions of postfeminist culture and mediated girlhoods through attention to the visual stylistics operating at their convergence – 'post-girl power' film and television. Complicating Angela McRobbie's theory of postfeminism, this project analyzes the phenomenon of 'sparkle' in contemporary US girls' media. As well it updates Rachel Moseley's pioneering work on luminous aesthetics in teen-girl film and tel…
Spectatorship
Mediated Girlhoods
Mediated Girlhoods, is an anthology devoted to scholarship on girls' media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes studies of girls' media representations, girls' media consumption, and girls' media production. In an attempt to push research on girls' media culture in new directions, it responds to criticisms of previous research in this field by including studies of girls who are not white, middle-class, heterosexual, cisgender,…
Girls’ Media Studies
Girls’ media studies is a unique area of feminist media studies that examines the intersecting dimensions of age and gender alongside other identity formations. Girls’ media scholarship covers studies on a diverse range of entertainment media, including film, television, magazines, music, comics, and video games, as well as digital communications technologies, platforms, and practices such as smartphones, social media, and sexting. Many researche…
Craft of Media Criticism
Riot Grrrl
This entry focuses on Riot Grrrl, a feminist punk movement that emerged during the early 1990s in the United States
Call-and-Response
We are proud to introduce this special issue that was inspired by the 2019 International Girlhood Studies Association (IGSA) conference at the University of Notre Dame (IGSA@ND). At that time, we were not yet acquainted with each other beyond exchanging pleasantries and knowing of each other’s academic profiles. Yet we came together as three co-editors and scholars committed not only to the diversification of girlhood studies but also to the larg…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (11 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Girl (7 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (7 works) · Literature (5 works)