International cinema and the girl : local issues, transnational contexts / edited by Fiona Handyside and Kate Taylor-Jones.
Handyside, Fiona, 1974- editor.; Taylor-Jones, Kate E, editor.
2016
PN1995.9.G57 I68 2016
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Title International cinema and the girl : local issues, transnational contexts / edited by Fiona Handyside and Kate Taylor-Jones.
ISBN 9781137388926 (electronic book)
1137388927 (electronic book)
9781137388919
1137388919
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number PN1995.9.G57 I68 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/652352
Summary From Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to Bella Swan in Twilight, the girl has been a subject of intense cinematic interest. This collection considers the specificity of girls' experiences and their cinematic articulation through a multicultural feminist lens which cuts across the divides of popular/art-house, Western/non Western, and north/south. From Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' to Bella Swan in 'Twilight', the girl has been a subject of intense cinematic interest. This collection considers the specificity of girls' experiences and their cinematic articulation through a multicultural feminist lens which cuts across the divides of popular/art-house, Western/non Western, and North/South cinematic cultures.
Note From Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to Bella Swan in Twilight, the girl has been a subject of intense cinematic interest. This collection considers the specificity of girls' experiences and their cinematic articulation through a multicultural feminist lens which cuts across the divides of popular/art-house, Western/non Western, and north/south. From Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' to Bella Swan in 'Twilight', the girl has been a subject of intense cinematic interest. This collection considers the specificity of girls' experiences and their cinematic articulation through a multicultural feminist lens which cuts across the divides of popular/art-house, Western/non Western, and North/South cinematic cultures.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 207-211), and index.
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Added Author Handyside, Fiona, 1974- editor.
Taylor-Jones, Kate E, editor.
Series Global cinema.
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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.

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