Dakota Fanning
(Good) Girl Star
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5675215 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moya Luckett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 515-532 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Celebrity Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1939-2397 • E-ISSN: 1939-2400 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19392397.2019.1673005 |
| OpenAlex | W2980253113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Acclaimed for her acting, quirky personal style and successful navigation of the often-precarious trajectory from child to adult star, Dakota Fanning is that rare millennial star known more for her work, professionalism and talent than her private life. Like other serious (but usually much older) she distances herself from celebrity trivia with her limited use of social media compounding her image as a hard-working 'good girl.' But Fanning reorients rather than forecloses identification, combining the self-reliance and putative upward mobility associated with fashion and precocious individual achievement with an evocation of sisterhood intimacy seen in her relationship with her equally successful younger sister, Elle. Despite her continued success, Fanning remains a Hollywood outlier. This paper considers how her girlish image helped her transition seamlessly from child star yet marginalises her in an era of mostly male-oriented movies and feminised celebrity culture. Conflating the contemporary with the old fashioned, Fanning's stardom has its own temporality. Neither fully childlike or fully adult, Fanning is a girl, a figure of suspension and becoming who can grow without the abrupt breaks and career adjustments that trouble so many former child stars. Always a girl, she was never a tween, an identity based on a desire to experience the pleasures of adolescence and adulthood
Art · Art history · Astrophysics · Developmental psychology · Girl · Physics · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |