[PDF] International Cinema And The Girl eBook

Author : Fiona Handyside
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137388927

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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.

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520088795

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Includes short entries for actresses, genres, studios and topics.

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :

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Female directors, screenwriters, producers--who are they and what films have they made? At last there are answers to these and other questions in a unique guide that, for the first time, charts the history of film from a feminist perspective. More than 80 film experts have contributed 600 essays on every aspect of women in film. Photos.

Author : Fiona Handyside
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2017-01-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1786731606

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She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. From The Virgin Suicides to The Bling Ring, her work carves out new spaces for the expression of female subjectivity that embraces rather than rejects femininity. Fiona Handyside here considers the careful counter-balance of vulnerability with the possibilities and pleasures of being female in Coppola's films - albeit for the white and the privileged - through their recurrent themes of girlhood, fame, power, sex and celebrity. Chapters reveal a post-feminist aesthetic that offers sustained, intimate engagements with female characters. These characters inhabit luminous worlds of girlish adornments, light and sparkle and yet find homes in unexpected places from hotels to swimming pools, palaces to strip clubs: resisting stereotypes and the ordinary. In this original study, Handyside brings critical attention to a rare female auteur and in so doing contributes to important analyses of post-feminism, authorship in film, and the growing field of girlhood studies.

Author : Susan Liddy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2020-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3030390705

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The chapter Experiencing Male Dominance in Swedish Film Production” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781861892201

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The first book to examine the troubled relationships between women, Islam and cinema.

Author : Tüysüz, Dilan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1799847799

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Aestheticization of evil is a frequently used formula in cinema and television. However, the representation of evil as an aesthetic object pushes it out of morality. Moral judgments can be pushed aside when evil is aestheticized in movies or TV series because there is no real victim. Thus, situations such as murder or war can become a source of aesthetic pleasure. Narratives in cinema and television can sometimes be based on a simple good-evil dichotomy and sometimes they can be based on individual or social experiences of evil and follow a more complicated method. Despite the various ways evil is depicted, it is a moral framework in film and television that must be researched to study the implications of aestheticized evil on human nature and society. International Perspectives on Rethinking Evil in Film and Television examines the changing representations of evil on screen in the context of the commonness, normalization, aestheticization, marginalization, legitimization, or popularity of evil. The chapters provide an international perspective of the representations of evil through an exploration of the evil tales or villains in cinema and television. Through looking at these programs, this book highlights topics such as the philosophy of good and evil, the portrayal of heroes and villains, the appeal of evil, and evil’s correspondence with gender and violence. This book is ideal for sociologists, professionals, researchers and students working or studying in the field of cinema and television and practitioners, academicians, and anyone interested in the portrayal and aestheticization of evil in international film and television.

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252052900

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During the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone's favorite stars, films, and filmmakers. Richard Abel returns these women to film history with an anthology of reviews, articles, and other works. Drawn from newspapers of the time, the selections show how columnists like Kitty Kelly, Mae Tinee, Louella Parsons, and Genevieve Harris wrote directly to female readers. They also profiled women working in jobs like scenario writer and film editor and noted the industry's willingness to hire women. Sharp wit and frank opinions entertained and informed a wide readership hungry for news about the movies but also about women on both sides of the camera. Abel supplements the texts with hard-to-find biographical information and provides context on the newspapers and silent-era movie industry as well as on the professionals and films highlighted by these writers. An invaluable collection of rare archival sources, Movie Mavens reveals women's essential contribution to the creation of American film culture.

Author : Samantha Colling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501318497

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Explore how Hollywood teen girl films made in the 21st century are designed to feel fun and offer a practical model for a new methodological approach to film and pleasure with The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film.

Author : Frances K. Gateward
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780814329184

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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 experience 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 to 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. Among the characters given special attention are those in Gidget, Crooklyn, Titanic, Freeway and Girls Town. Written for general and academic readers, this work offers a lively, unprecedented discussion of gender in youth-oriented films.