International cinema and the girl : local issues, transnational contexts / edited by Fiona Handyside and Kate Taylor-Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Handyside, Fiona, 1974- editor.

Taylor-Jones, Kate E., editor.

Series:

Global cinema

New documentaries in Latin America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

x, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction

Girlhood and postfeminism: global perspectives. The showgirl effect: adolescent girls and (precarious) "technologies of sexiness" in contemporary Italian cinema / Danielle Hipkins

Girlfriends, postfeminism, and the European chick-flick in France / Mary Harrod

Warrior of love: Japanese girlhood and postfeminist corporeality in Cutie Honey (Hideaki Anno, 2004) / Joel Gwynne

Philosophies of girlhood on film. Feminine adolescence and transgressive materiality in the films of Lucrecia Martel / Deborah Martin

A phenomenology of girlhood: Being Mia in Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009) / Lucy Bolton

Desire, outcast: locating queer adolescence / Clara Bradbury-Rance

Bye-bye to Betty's blues and "La Bonne Meuf": temporal drag and queer subversions of the rom-com in Bye Bye Blondie (Virginie Despentes, 2011) / Lara Cox

Sonic youth: girlhood, music, and identity. "Chica dificil": music, identity, and agency in Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso, 2002) / Tim McNelis

Emotion, girlhood, and music in Naissance des pieuvres (Céline Sciamma, 2007) and Un amour de jeunesse (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011) / Fiona Handyside

The pleasures of music video aesthetics in girl teen film / Samantha Colling

Extraordinary girlhoods. Where's girlhood? the female child killer in Where's Mary? (Tony Hickson, 2005) / Lisa Downing

Performing history: girlhood and Sib/The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998) / Margherita Sprio

Girlhood in a warzone: African child soldiers in film / Kate Taylor-Jones

Daddy's little sidekick: the girl superhero in contemporary cinema / Marty Zeller-Jacques.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 207-211), and index.

ISBN:

9781137388919

1137388919

OCLC:

933209983