| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages). |
| Series |
Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 86 |
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Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 86.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Thinking about Girls ; PART I: Everyone here looks how I would look with a nose job. ; 1. How Not to Watch Girls ; 2. Don't Get Mad at Girls; 3. Adam, Like a Hero ; 4. Why Girls Can't Be Spoiled ; PART II: Am I seriously the only one of us who prides herself on being a truly authentic person? ; 5. What Gilrs Teaches Us about Millennials and the Meaning of Life ; 6. Jessa the Existentialist ; 7. Can Hannah Rewrite Her World? ; 8. Can Millenials Be Authentic? ; 9. The Q-Tipping Point of Anxiety. |
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PART III: If you're here to tell me what a bad person I am, I don't want to hear it. 10. Listen, Ladies! Or Maybe You Shouldn't ; 11. The Seven Deadly Sins of Girls ; 12. Vulnerable Young Workers ; 13. A Tale of Two Hannahs; PART IV: I thought this would be a nice opportunity for us to have fun together and prove to everyone via Instagram that we could still have fun as a group. ; 14. Forever Unsatisfied; 15. What Their Clothes Tell Us about Those Girls ; 16. Who Are the Ladies? ; 17. Suffering for Want of Love ; 18. Were We Educated for This? ; 19. Chinese Philosophy Looks at Girls. |
| Summary |
The drama-comedy show Girls -- often under-rated by being perceived as Sex and the City for the Millennial generation --has made TV history and provoked controversy for its pitilessly accurate portrayal of four oddly sympathetic twenty-something female characters, notable for their self-absorption, empathy deficits, and ineptitude with relationships. Among other breakthroughs, it is the first show to depict the sex act among the alienated young as nearly always awkward and unfulfilling. In Girls and Philosophy, a team of diverse yet always sensitive, empathic, and ept philosophers approach the wor. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Girls (Television program) -- Miscellanea.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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| Added Author |
Greene, Richard, 1961 September 2- editor.
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Robison-Greene, Rachel, 1983- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Girls and Philosophy. New York : Open Court, ©2014 9780812698596 |
| ISBN |
9780812698879 (electronic bk.) |
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0812698878 (electronic bk.) |
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