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.