Mary Celeste Kearney
Mary Celeste Kearney is Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre and Concurrent Faculty in American Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a Console-ing Passions board member and editor of the book series Routledge Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Media.
Mary's research to date has focused primarily on girls' media culture. She is author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006) and Gender and Rock (Oxford, 2017). She is editor of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (Peter Lang, 2011) and The Gender and Media Reader (Routledge, 2011). With Morgan Blue she co-edited Mediated Girlhoods, vol. 2 (Peter Lang, 2017), and with Michael Kackman she co-edited The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice (Routledge, 2018). She is currently at work on her second monograph, Designing the Junior Miss: The First Wave of Teen-Girl Entertainment (UT Press).
Her recent essays include: "Sparkle: Luminosity and Post-Girl Power Media" (Continuum, 2015), "When Mad Men Pitches Feminism: Witnessing History through DVD Special Features” (Memory Connection, 2011); "Tough Girls in a Rough Game: Televising the Unruly Female Athletes of Contemporary Roller Derby" (Feminist Media Studies, 2011); "Pink Technology: Media-Making Gear for Girls" (Camera Obscura, 2010); and "Coalescing: The Development of Girls' Studies" (NWSA Journal, 2009).
Mary is founding director of Cinemakids, a program for inspiring young media producers. See also her website, Girls Make Media, which is devoted to girls' media production: http://girlsmakemedia.blogspot.com/.
Mary's research to date has focused primarily on girls' media culture. She is author of Girls Make Media (Routledge, 2006) and Gender and Rock (Oxford, 2017). She is editor of Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (Peter Lang, 2011) and The Gender and Media Reader (Routledge, 2011). With Morgan Blue she co-edited Mediated Girlhoods, vol. 2 (Peter Lang, 2017), and with Michael Kackman she co-edited The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice (Routledge, 2018). She is currently at work on her second monograph, Designing the Junior Miss: The First Wave of Teen-Girl Entertainment (UT Press).
Her recent essays include: "Sparkle: Luminosity and Post-Girl Power Media" (Continuum, 2015), "When Mad Men Pitches Feminism: Witnessing History through DVD Special Features” (Memory Connection, 2011); "Tough Girls in a Rough Game: Televising the Unruly Female Athletes of Contemporary Roller Derby" (Feminist Media Studies, 2011); "Pink Technology: Media-Making Gear for Girls" (Camera Obscura, 2010); and "Coalescing: The Development of Girls' Studies" (NWSA Journal, 2009).
Mary is founding director of Cinemakids, a program for inspiring young media producers. See also her website, Girls Make Media, which is devoted to girls' media production: http://girlsmakemedia.blogspot.com/.
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Girls Make Media explores how young female media producers have reclaimed and reconfigured girlhood as a site for radical social, cultural, and political agency. Central to the book is an analysis of Riot Grrrl--a 1990s feminist youth movement from a fusion of punk rock and gender theory-and the girl power movement it inspired. The author also looks at the rise of girls-only media education programs, and the creation of girls' studies. This book will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary female youth in today's media culture.
Papers by Mary Celeste Kearney
training girl filmmakers; gender politics of film schools
Girls Make Media explores how young female media producers have reclaimed and reconfigured girlhood as a site for radical social, cultural, and political agency. Central to the book is an analysis of Riot Grrrl--a 1990s feminist youth movement from a fusion of punk rock and gender theory-and the girl power movement it inspired. The author also looks at the rise of girls-only media education programs, and the creation of girls' studies. This book will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary female youth in today's media culture.
training girl filmmakers; gender politics of film schools