Tweencom girls : gender and adolescence in Disney and Nickelodeon sitcoms / Patrice A. Oppliger.

"Tweencom Girls analyzes the different ways character tropes, particularly for female characters, have been portrayed in media and targeted at eight- to twelve-year-olds over the past twenty-five years. This book focuses particularly on sitcoms produced by the cable giants Disney Channel and Nickelo...

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Main Author: Oppliger, Patrice A. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Series:Children and youth in popular culture.
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Physical Description:xix, 209 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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