Sarah Projansky states, “All (…) is part of the spectacularization of girlhood in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century media culture: the discursive production and social regulation of the girl as a fabulous and/or scandalous object on display.” (p.6). The author interrogates the relationship established by the media between girls and celebrity by theorizing it as one of the specteculrization. She argues that the depiction of girl celebrity shapes our understanding of girlhood and celebrity respectively and how they are made spectatcular within media culture. The author attempts to address the dominant representation of girls in media and how it pushes as an audience to pay attention to that depiction as it silences other depictions and representations.
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Simultaneous admiration for on-screen girls and 2. the extensiveness of whiteness and heteronormativity. The author extends the argument by stressing that even though the dichotomy of the “can-do” girl and troubled girl who needs protection exist, there is a need to focus on the variety of other narratives appearing in media culture, including girls of color, queer, feminist, racially diverse, and independent girls. From these categories, she employed feminist media studies methodology which is characterized into complex, multidimensional and multilayered representations, holds intersectional and historical specificity, and interdisciplinary ethnography. Projansky with this approach explains alternative version of girlhood by de-centering whiteness. This methodology continues to be useful in understanding the prevailing discourse about girlhood and how it challenges this dichotomy. The author’s analysis of live coverage of Williams’s tennis matches demonstrates how William not only challenges the skin privilege in sports, but also offers the understanding of black girlhood within the US media culture. Projansky, in final chapter reviews issues of media technology, gender analysis, identification, body image and resistance. She stress that children posses the ability to criticizes media by grasping complex issues and resist the demands place on them by conducted a research analysis on her daughter’s third-grade class on media criticism by generalizing on the
Simultaneous admiration for on-screen girls and 2. the extensiveness of whiteness and heteronormativity. The author extends the argument by stressing that even though the dichotomy of the “can-do” girl and troubled girl who needs protection exist, there is a need to focus on the variety of other narratives appearing in media culture, including girls of color, queer, feminist, racially diverse, and independent girls. From these categories, she employed feminist media studies methodology which is characterized into complex, multidimensional and multilayered representations, holds intersectional and historical specificity, and interdisciplinary ethnography. Projansky with this approach explains alternative version of girlhood by de-centering whiteness. This methodology continues to be useful in understanding the prevailing discourse about girlhood and how it challenges this dichotomy. The author’s analysis of live coverage of Williams’s tennis matches demonstrates how William not only challenges the skin privilege in sports, but also offers the understanding of black girlhood within the US media culture. Projansky, in final chapter reviews issues of media technology, gender analysis, identification, body image and resistance. She stress that children posses the ability to criticizes media by grasping complex issues and resist the demands place on them by conducted a research analysis on her daughter’s third-grade class on media criticism by generalizing on the