Bratz: Super-Bratz

Bratz: Super-Bratz
Author: Christine Peymani
Publisher: TokyoPop
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-09-09
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781427807892

Sasha, Yasmin, Cloe, and Jade decide to start attending class at the Center for Extraordinary Abilities and realize that some of their classmates are abusing their powers.

Super Starz Masquerade

Super Starz Masquerade
Author: Christine Peymani
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439919524

The Bratz decide to dress as pop sensations for the annual Stilesville Masquerade Ball, and to make their costumes more complete they form their own pop group, the Super Starz.

Rock Angelz

Rock Angelz
Author: Sierra Harimann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780448440088

The Bratz are so excited when Jade lands an internship at a local fashion magazine. Based on the DVD, this book takes readers all the way to the hip London fashion and music scenes.

Bratz Stylin' Salon 'n' Spa

Bratz Stylin' Salon 'n' Spa
Author: Jennifer Bonnell
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2003
Genre: Beauty, Personal
ISBN: 9780141317502

It's the biggest beach party of the year, and guess who's hosting? The Bratz girls, of course! This book has cool tips and party-planning know-how from the Bratz about throwing a beach bash, quizzes, fashion advice and more!

Girls Gone Skank

Girls Gone Skank
Author: Patrice A. Oppliger
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-02-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786486503

Instead of advancing women's social and professional empowerment, popular culture trends appear to be backsliding into the blatant sexual exploitation of women and girls at younger and younger ages. This study investigates the effects of mass marketed sexual images and cultural trends on the behaviors and attitudes of young girls and describes many ways in which young girls are increasingly taught to go to outrageous lengths in seeking male attention. Topics include the powerful effects of cultural phenomena such as revealing fashions, plastic surgery, and beauty pageants in influencing teen and preteen girls to willingly participate in and promote their own sexualization. These chapters also explore other cultural factors contributing to this early sexualization of young girls, including absentee parenting and material overindulgence. Later chapters focus on the sexual representations of females in the mass entertainment media, focusing specifically on how popular magazines, television programs, films, and the Internet prey upon, promote, and reinforce young girls' physical and sexual insecurities.

Super Bitches and Action Babes

Super Bitches and Action Babes
Author: Rikke Schubart
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014-08-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786482842

With actress Pam Grier's breakthrough in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema, however, was--and still is--viewed with ambivalence. While women were cast in new and exciting roles, they did not always arrive with their femininity intact, often functioning both as a sexualized spectacle and as a new female hero rather than female character. This volume contains an in-depth critical analysis and study of the female hero in popular film from 1970 to 2006. It examines five female archetypes: the dominatrix, the Amazon, the daughter, the mother and the rape-avenger. The entrance of the female hero into films written by, produced by and made for men is viewed through the lens of feminism and post-feminism arguments. Analyzed works include films with actors Michelle Yeoh and Meiko Kaji, the Alien films, the Lara Croft franchise, Charlie's Angels, and television productions such as Xena: Warrior Princess and Alias.

Packaging Girlhood

Packaging Girlhood
Author: Sharon Lamb, Ed.D.
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2006-08-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0312352506

The authors present an eye-opening look at how culture, media, and marketers dictate what girls should look like, enjoy, become, and consume--and what parents can do about it.

You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie's Dark Side

You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie's Dark Side
Author: Orly Lobel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0393254089

“A hair-raising account of a Barbie Dreamhouse-size Jarndyce and Jarndyce.”—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This provocative work spotlights the legal battles between behemoth Mattel and audacious MGA over incredibly successful toys and the ownership of an idea. Law professor Orly Lobel deeply researched this riveting story, interviewing those involved, to draw attention to the contentious debate over creativity and intellectual property. She also explores female images and how we market cultural icons, from the doll that inspired all-American Barbie to the defiant, anti-establishment Bratz—the only doll to outsell Barbie in any year.

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019
Author: Harris M. Lentz III
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2020-11-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476679789

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2019 are included in this edition. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.