Cinemas of Girlhood
Edited by Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance
$49.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2917-9
$27.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2918-7
344 pages / 6 x 9
18 illlustrations
2002
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Sugar,
Spice, and Everything Nice Cinemas of Girlhood Edited by Frances Gateward and Murray Pomerance |
From the Wizard of Oz to Lolita, from the Heathers to the Spice Girls, images of girlhood have been projected on the silver screen in myriad ways. Whether a girl is taught that "there is no place like home" or is seeking adventure on her own terms, whether she is a seductress or a nerd, a babysitter or a murderer, films have depicted society's problematic expectations of girls together with the dreams, anxieties, and tensions experienced by girls themselves. In examining the construction of girlhood from many angles, this collection of essays not only captures the richness of meaning behind "girl films," but also explores the recent resurgence of youth-oriented cinema and the relationship of young female viewers to that medium. The twenty essays approach the construction of girlhood from a variety of perspectives, including reception, production, star images, and textual analyses, while exploring such topics as star power, the Riot Grrrl movement, coming of age, and loss of innocence. | "Of all the blind spots that exist in film scholarship, the lack of serious analyses of young women in the cinema has been one of the most glaring. Gateward and Pomerance have done an extraordinary job of bringing together diverse perspectives on girls in film from Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz to Sadie Benning's Pixelvision experimental autobiographies. This anthology fills gaps in feminist film criticism, film history, cultural studies, and women's studies, and it is certain to be a welcome addition in libraries and classrooms everywhere." —Gina Marchetti, Associate Professor, Dept. of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College | |||||||||||||
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Approaches to Film and Television Series $49.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2917-9 $27.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2918-7 344 pages / 6 x 9 18 illlustrations 2002 contents > |
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