Girlhood and the Plastic Image

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments This book is full of lists. Here is the first and the best: My gratitude goes to my editor, Richard Pult; former professors Neil Cox, Shannon Jackson, Russell Merritt, Anne Nesbet, Kaja Silverman, Shannon Steen, and W. B. Worthen, my dissertation adviser; fellow Berkeleyans Patrick Anderson, Mona Bower, Heather Butler, Renu Cappelli, Gretchen Case, Scott Ferguson, Katie Gough, Kristina Hagström, Beth Hoffman, Laura Levin, Kelly Rafferty, Lara Shalson, Deborah Shamoon, Monica Stufft, and Joanne Stoddard Taylor; Center for 21st Century Studies denizens John Blum, Rachel Buff, Rebecca Dunham, Mary Mullen, Michael Newman, Rebekah Sheldon, Nathaniel Stern, Kristin Sziarto, and Charlotte Frost, the girliest girl I know; interlocutors Scott Bukatman and Richard Grusin; bold and generous reviewer Kirstin Ringelberg; artists Curt Cloninger, Charles Csuri, Emilie Gervais, Pierre Huyghe, Parker Ito, Martine Neddam, Philippe Parreno, Pedro Vélez, and Sarah Weis; Catherine Belloy at Marion Goodman Gallery, editor Valerie Valentine, without whom this book would be image free; editors Christi Stanforth and Amanda Dupuis; former student Donna Neal; Carol Edwards, Andrew Martin, and Brian Steele at Texas Tech University; my mom and dad; and Seth Warren-Crow, an ever-loving, ever-ready proponent of Girl Power. Research for this book was supported by the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. ...