Little Miss Sunshine

When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive, voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realising her dreams.

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Further Reading

  • Valerie Walkerdine, ‘Putting Your Daughter on the Stage’ in Daddy’s girl: young girls and popular culture 
  • Hilary Levey, ‘here she is … and there she goes?’ in Contexts, vol. 6, no. 3 (2007)
  • Sarah Projansky, ‘What Is There to Talk About?: Twenty-First-Century Girl Films’ in Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture