[ecrea] new publication - International Cinema and the Girl:Local Issues, Transnational Contexts

> From Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to Bella Swan in Twilight , the girl has been a subject of intense cinematic interest. 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.

Chapters:

Part I Girlhood and Postfeminism: Global Perspectives
1 The Showgirl Effect: Adolescent Girls and (Precarious)
“Technologies of Sexiness” in Contemporary Italian
Cinema: Danielle Hipkins
2 Girlfriends, Postfeminism, and the European Chick-Flick in
France: Mary Harrod
3 Warrior of Love: Japanese Girlhood’s Postfeminist Asian
Body in Cutie Honey (Hideaki Anno, 2004): Joel Gwynne

Part II Philosophies of Girlhood in Film
4 Feminine Adolescence and Transgressive Materiality in the
Films of Lucrecia Martel: Deborah Martin
5 A Phenomenology of Girlhood: Being Mia in Fish Tank
(Andrea Arnold, 2009): Lucy Bolton
6 Desire, Outcast: Locating Queer Adolescence: Clara Bradbury-Rance
7 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

Part III Sonic Youth: Girlhood, Music, and Identity
8 “Chica Dificil”: Music, Identity, and Agency in Real Women
Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso, 2002): Tim McNelis
9 Emotion, Girlhood, and Music in Naissance des pieuvres
(Céline Sciamma, 2007) and Un amour de jeunesse (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011): 
Fiona Handyside
10 The Pleasures of Music Video Aesthetics in Girl Teen Film: Samantha 
Colling

Part IV Extraordinary Girlhoods
11 Where’s Girlhood? The Female Child Killer in Where’s
Mary? (Tony Hickson, 2005): Lisa Downing
12 Performing History: Girlhood and Sib/The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 
1998): Margherita Sprio
13 Girlhood in a Warzone: African Child Soldiers in Film: Kate Taylor-Jones
14 Daddy’s Little Sidekick: The Girl Superhero in
Contemporary Cinema: Martin Zeller-Jacques

Available:
USA: http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137388919
UK: 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/International-Cinema-Girl-Transnational-Contexts/dp/1137388919/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453907212&sr=8-1&keywords=international+cinema+and+the+girl

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