The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film

Dr. Samantha Colling (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-1849-8 (ISBN)

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What is ‘fun’ about the Hollywood version of girlhood? Through re-evaluating notions of pleasure and fun, The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film forms a study of Hollywood girl teen films between 2000-2010. By tracing the aesthetic connections between films such as Mean Girls (Waters, 2004), Hairspray (Shankman, 2007), and Easy A (Gluck, 2010), the book articulates the specific types of pleasure these films offer as a means to understand how Hollywood creates gendered ideas of fun. Rather than condemn these films as ‘guilty pleasures’ this book sets out to understand how they are designed to create experiences that feel as though they express desires, memories, or fantasies that girls supposedly share in common. Providing a practical model for a new approach to cinematic pleasures The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film proposes that these films offer a limited version of girlhood that feels like potential and promise but is restricted within prescribed parameters.

Samantha Colling is Lecturer in Film and Media at Manchester School of Art and Research Degrees Development Tutor in the Arts and Humanities Graduate School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Cinderella’s Pleasures: the power and pleasures of costume
3. Celebrity Glamour: space, place and visibility
4. Sporting Pleasures: the body as aesthetic surface
5. Musical Address: expansion, confinement and kinaesthetic contagion
6. Music Video Aesthetics: the affects of spectacle
7. Conclusions and Future Research
Filmography
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	31 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5013-1849-7 / 1501318497
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-1849-8 / 9781501318498
Zustand	Neuware