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The aesthetic pleasures of girl teen film /

What is 'fun' about the Hollywood version of girlhood? Through re-evaluating notions of pleasure and fun, this is a study of Hollywood teen girl films between 2000-2010. By tracing the aesthetic connections between films such as Mean Girls (Waters, 2004), Hairspray (Shankman, 2007), and Ea...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colling, Samantha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:What is 'fun' about the Hollywood version of girlhood? Through re-evaluating notions of pleasure and fun, this is a study of Hollywood teen girl 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501318504
1501318500
9781501318511
1501318519