[ecrea] Sugar and Spice: Global Girlhood in the Cinema/Global Cinema and the Girl

Sugar and Spice: Global Girlhood in the Cinema/Global Cinema and the Girl

The figure of the girl is an intriguing one for cinema specialists. The 
focus of angst as possible victim of processes of 'sexualisation', the 
symbol of (imagined) childhood innocence, a metaphor for the uncertain 
and precarious nature of subjectivity, the site of intrigue and 
nostalgia for adults, the figure of the girls speaks to many strands of 
film theory and history: feminist questions of representation of female 
subjects, historical accounts of childhood and girlhood in the cinema, 
and philosophical engagements with the possibilities of the subject in 
film. Although recent work in sociology and film studies has addressed 
girlhood in Hollywood cinema as part of interest in post-feminist 
representations, we seek to complicate this reading through employing a 
comparative lens in terms of history and geography. This edited 
collection aims to explore the figure of the girl across time and space 
in the cinema. We are therefore interested in accounts from different 
movements and moments in global cinemas on the inflections of this 
figure. At this stage, we are looking to attract provisional expressions 
of interest that we will collate and put together as a proposal for a 
collection with a major publisher.

Deadline: 20th May 2012

For more information please contact Dr Fiona Handyside, University of 
Exeter ((f.j.handyside /at/ ex.ac.uk) <mailto:(f.j.handyside /at/ ex.ac.uk)>) or Dr 
Kate E Taylor0Jones, Bangor University ((k.taylor /at/ bangor.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(k.taylor /at/ bangor.ac.uk)>)

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