International Cinema and the Girl [electronic resource] : Local Issues, Transnational Contexts /
Handyside, Fiona.author.
Taylor-Jones, Kate.editor.
From the precocious charms of Shirley Temple to the box-office behemoth Frozen and its two young female leads, Anna and Elsa, the girl has long been a figure of fascination for cinema. The symbol of (imagined) childhood innocence, the site of intrigue and nostalgia for adults, a metaphor for the precarious nature of subjectivity itself, the girl is caught between infancy and adulthood, between objectification and power. She speaks to many strands of interest for film studies: feminist questions of cinematic representation of female subjects; historical accounts of shifting images of girls and childhood in the cinema; and philosophical engagements with the possibilities for the subject in film. 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. Drawing on examples from North and South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, the contributors bring a new understanding of the global/local nature of girlhood and its relation to contemporary phenomena such as post-feminism, neoliberalism and queer subcultures. Containing work by established and emerging scholars, this volume explodes the narrow post-feminist canon and expands existing geographical, ethnic, and historical accounts of cinematic cultures and girlhood.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes filmographies and index.
From the precocious charms of Shirley Temple to the box-office behemoth Frozen and its two young female leads, Anna and Elsa, the girl has long been a figure of fascination for cinema. The symbol of (imagined) childhood innocence, the site of intrigue and nostalgia for adults, a metaphor for the precarious nature of subjectivity itself, the girl is caught between infancy and adulthood, between objectification and power. She speaks to many strands of interest for film studies: feminist questions of cinematic representation of female subjects; historical accounts of shifting images of girls and childhood in the cinema; and philosophical engagements with the possibilities for the subject in film. 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. Drawing on examples from North and South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, the contributors bring a new understanding of the global/local nature of girlhood and its relation to contemporary phenomena such as post-feminism, neoliberalism and queer subcultures. Containing work by established and emerging scholars, this volume explodes the narrow post-feminist canon and expands existing geographical, ethnic, and historical accounts of cinematic cultures and girlhood.
Introduction -- Girlhood and postfeminism: global perspectives. The showgirl effect: adolescent girls and (precarious) "technologies of sexiness" in contemporary Italian cinema / by Danielle Hipkins -- Girlfriends, postfeminism and the European chick-flick in France / by Mary Harrod -- Warrior of love: Japanese girlhood and postfeminist corporeality in Cutie honey (Hideaki anno, 2004) / by Joel Gwynne -- Philosophies of girlhood on film. Feminine adolescence and transgressive materiality in the films of Lucrecia Martel / by Deborah Martin -- A phenomenology of girlhood: Being Mia in fish tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009) / by Lucy Bolton -- Desire, outcast: locating queer adolescence / by 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) / by Tim McNelis -- Emotion, girlhood and music in Naissance des pieuvres/Water lilies (Celine Sciamma, 2007) and Un amour de jeunesse/Goodbye, first love (Mia Hansen-Love, 2011) / by Fiona Handyside -- The pleasures of music video aesthetics in girl teen film / by Samantha Colling -- Extra-ordinary girlhoods. Where's girlhood? the female child killer in Where's Mary? (Tony Hickson, 2005) / by Lisa Downing -- Performing history: girlhood and The apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998) / Margherita Sprio -- Girlhood in a warzone: African child soldiers on film / by Kate Taylor-Jones -- Daddy's little sidekick: the girl superhero in contemporary cinema / by Marty Zeller-Jacques.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures and television.
Social groups.
Family.
Sociology.
Civilization—History.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Film History.
Screen Studies.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Gender Studies.
Cultural History.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.