The aesthetic pleasures of girl teen film / Samantha Colling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colling, Samantha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and teenagers.

Motion pictures for teenage girls.

Motion pictures--United States--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Teenage girls in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

What is 'fun' about the Hollywood version of girlhood? Through re-evaluating notions of pleasure and fun, The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film forms a study of Hollywood girl teen films between 2000-2010. By tracing the aesthetic connections between films such as Mean Girls (Waters, 2004), Hairspray (Shankman, 2007), and Easy A (Gluck, 2010), the book articulates the specific types of pleasure these films offer as a means to understand how Hollywood creates gendered ideas of fun. Rather than condemn these films as 'guilty pleasures' this book sets out to understand how they are designed to create experiences that feel as though they express desires, memories, or fantasies that girls supposedly share in common. Providing a practical model for a new approach to cinematic pleasures The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film proposes that these films offer a limited version of girlhood that feels like potential and promise but is restricted within prescribed parameters

Contents:

Cinderella's pleasures: the power and pleasures of costume

Celebrity glamour: space, place and visibility

Sporting pleasures: the body as aesthetic surface

Musical address: expansion, confinement and kinaesthetic contagion

Music video aesthetics: the affects of spectacle

Conclusions and future research.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781501318528

1501318527

9781501318504

1501318500

9781501318511

1501318519

OCLC:

1106557559