International Cinema and the Girl [[electronic resource] ] : Local Issues, Transnational Contexts / / by Fiona Handyside ; edited by Kate Taylor-Jones

• Autore: Handyside Fiona
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 219 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/652352
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): Taylor-JonesKate
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes filmographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: International Cinema and the Girl
• ISBN: 1-137-38892-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255230503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Global Cinema, . 2634-5951