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International Cinema and the Girl - Local Issues, Transnational Contexts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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International Cinema and the Girl - Local Issues, Transnational Contexts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Global Cinema
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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.
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