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dc.contributor.authorO’Meara, Jennifer
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-28T00:36:09Z
dc.date.available2019-12-28T00:36:09Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-28
dc.identifier254749150
dc.identifier4db97fa8-f9ee-4912-b8a1-7594ae3770c8
dc.identifier85065855350
dc.identifier000468466900004
dc.identifier.citationO’Meara , J 2018 , ' ‘Call her moonchild’ : Christina Ricci’s enduring embodiment of impure youth and whiteness ' , Celebrity Studies , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2018.1482774en
dc.identifier.issn1939-2397
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:12B06498C4AB32BE734D893F1D8C2B49
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19209
dc.description.abstractWith a focus on how Christina Ricci performs the 'bad girl' body, one that renegotiates idealised forms of whiteness and ventures into performances of 'white trash', this article demonstrates how the actress's evolution from child to adult star was smoothed by a youthful physicality in adulthood, and a consistent performance of bodily taboos in both periods. By examining Ricci's physical presentation and associations with transgressive girlhood across a range of media, I argue that her persona deconstructs notions of female white purity by portraying childlike innocence alongside adult knowingness and sexuality. In considering how Ricci's distinct physicality relates to that of Shirley Temple, Ricci's body is revealed to playfully subvert idealised representations of the female child and childlike women. Ricci is shown to have made a career out of playing extreme variations of the 'dirty little white girl', whose 'dirtiness' aligns her with various kinds of 'Other' but who is as likely to pose her own threat to others as to need saving. As such, and in an extension of a term used to describe one of her characters, Ricci is conceived of as a 'moonchild'; a figure whose external whiteness depends on physical and behavioural darkness for it effect.
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dc.format.extent428025
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofCelebrity Studiesen
dc.subjectChristina Riccien
dc.subjectChild starsen
dc.subjectGirlhooden
dc.subjectWhitenessen
dc.subject'white trash'en
dc.subjectPN1993 Motion Picturesen
dc.subjectPN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theateren
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccPN1993en
dc.subject.lccPN2000en
dc.title‘Call her moonchild’ : Christina Ricci’s enduring embodiment of impure youth and whitenessen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Film Studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19392397.2018.1482774
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-12-28


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