International cinema and the girl
Subtitle: local issues, transnational contexts
By: edited by Fiona Handyside and Kate Taylor-Jones
Series: Global cinema
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137388919
Subjects: Teenage girls in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Girlhood and postfeminism: global perspectives. The showgirl effect: adolescent girls and (precarious) "technologies of sexiness" in contemporary Italian cinema / by Danielle Hipkins; title: Girlfriends, postfeminism and the European chick-flick in France / by Mary Harrod; title: Warrior of love: Japanese girlhood and postfeminist corporeality in Cutie honey (Hideaki anno, 2004) / by Joel Gwynne; title: Philosophies of girlhood on film. Feminine adolescence and transgressive materiality in the films of Lucrecia Martel / by Deborah Martin; title: A phenomenology of girlhood: Being Mia in fish tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009) / by Lucy Bolton; title: Desire, outcast: locating queer adolescence / by Clara Bradbury-Rance; title: 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; title: Sonic youth: girlhood, music, and identity. "Chica dificil": music, identity, and agency in Real women have curves (Patricia Cardoso, 2002) / by Tim McNelis; title: 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; title: The pleasures of music video aesthetics in girl teen film / by Samantha Colling; title: Extra-ordinary girlhoods. Where's girlhood? the female child killer in Where's Mary? (Tony Hickson, 2005) / by Lisa Downing; title: Performing history: girlhood and The apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998) / Margherita Sprio; title: Girlhood in a warzone: African child soldiers on film / by Kate Taylor-Jones; title: Daddy's little sidekick: the girl superhero in contemporary cinema / by Marty Zeller-Jacques.