Masculine Girls in a Feminised Patriarchy: Negotiating the Sex/Gender System in Twenty-First Century Cinema

This thesis explores the narrative development of the girl’s gendered identity in relation to key male characters in a selection of films emerging at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It argues that this girl/man dynamic registers increasing cultural anxieties in relation to contextual shif...

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Main Author: Trevenen, Claire Renee
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2097