Overview
From """"The Wizard of Oz"""" to """"Lolita"""", from """"Heathers"""" to """"Spice Girls - The Movie"""", images of girlhood have been projected on the silver screen in myriad ways. 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 attempts to capture the richness of meaning behind """"girl films"""", but also explores the recent resurgence of youth-orientated cinema and the relationship of young female viewers to that medium. The 20 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. 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 livley discussion of gender in youth-orientated films.
Full Product Details
Author: Frances Gateward ,
Murray Pomerance
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 21.80cm
Weight: 0.637kg
ISBN: 9780814329184
ISBN 10: 0814329187
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 28 February 2002
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
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
Author Information
Frances Gateward teaches courses in film and popular culture in the Program in Film and Video and the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her work has been published in a number of journals and anthologies. She is the editor of Zhang Yimou: Interviews (2001). Murray Pomerance is professor and chair in the department of sociology at Ryerson University. His books include Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the end of the 20th Century (2001) and Bang Bang Shoot Shoot! Essays on Violence and Popular Culture (1998).
