“Chick flick”一词直到20世纪80年代和90年代才广泛使用。起源于20世纪早期的“女性电影”,这些电影将女性描绘成受害者和家庭主婦,后来在20世纪40年代和50年代初的黑色电影中,性化的女性被描绘为一种威胁[4][5][6]。在1950年代,许多在第二次世界大战期间进入职场的女性面临回归家庭的转变。Brandon French 指出,1950年代的女性电影“揭示了女性从40年代到60年代过渡中面临的不同问题和情境:浪漫、求爱、工作、婚姻、性爱、母性、离婚、孤独、通奸、酗酒、寡居、英雄主义、疯狂和野心。”[7]
^Jacobson, Colin. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). dvdmg.com. April 13, 2007 [August 22, 2011]. (原始内容存档于2024-02-21). Officer manages to be one of those rare films that deftly treads the line between guy movie and "chick-flick".
^ 32.032.132.232.3Terms of Endearment. New York University: litmed.med.nyu.edu Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database. [September 30, 2010]. (原始内容存档于2011-08-20). Terms of Endearment shares with films Beaches, Steel Magnolias, and One True Thing the popular status of melodramatic 'chick-flick'.
^James Berardinelli. Waiting to Exhale. reelviews.net. 1995 [October 2, 2010]. (原始内容存档于2021-02-25). No doubt about it -- this is a "women's movie" (or, as it's alternatively referred to, a "chick-flick")
^Spindle, Les. The First Wives Club -- Theater Review. The Hollywood Reporter. August 5, 2009 [October 2, 2010]. (原始内容存档于2022-05-20). The menopausal chick-flick "The First Wives Club" (1996), based on the novel by Olivia Goldsmith, primarily demonstrated that mediocrity needn't preclude boxoffice success
^Beyrer, Bill. The Notebook - Review. Cinemablend.com. [October 2, 2010]. (原始内容存档于2021-03-03). The Notebook is a chick-flick. Not just any kind of chick-flick, but the kind of chick-flick your parents would like.
^Oloffson, Kristi. Top 10 Worst Chick Flicks. Time. May 25, 2010 [2024-08-25]. (原始内容存档于2025-02-12). If it were ever possible to cram all the glittering boy-meets-girl, high-school-love-story stereotypes into one movie, A Cinderella Story does it in spades. The 2004 movie stars Hilary Duff, whose father dies in an earthquake, forcing her to work in a diner for her evil stepmother who keeps her from chasing her college dreams. She meets a boy (Chad Michael Murray) online, but he's in the cool crowd and she doesn't fit in (even though she's beautiful and smart). They agree to meet on the school dance floor, where she wears a mask barely covering her eyes so he magically can't tell who she really is (even though you can see her entire face). Duff's performance in the movie snagged her a Razzie nomination in 2005 for Worst Actress. Did anyone expect anything more? TIME takes a look at some other not-so-great films that have been cruelly pitched at female audiences
^Mele, Rick. The Proposal. AskMen.com. [October 2, 2010]. (原始内容存档于2022-05-26). this is a chick-flick so Andrew's choice and what yours might have been aren't necessarily going to match up
^The Movie Report Archive: June 2009. mrbrownmovies.com. June 19, 2009 [October 3, 2010]. (原始内容存档于2017-11-28). (quote) there is something to be said for such a relentlessly by-the-numbers chick-flick programmer that is nonetheless a breezily enjoyable sit
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