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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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  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Author's Note and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Girl teen film; Method and approach; Pleasure and aesthetics; Chapters; Chapter 2 Cinderella's Pleasures: The Power and Pleasures of Costume; Introduction; Generic compatibility and the pleasures of enchantment; Cinderella's legacy; The powers and pleasures of costume; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Celebrity Glamour: Space, Place and Visibility; Introduction; The powers of visibility; The structures of celebrity in girl teen films; Celebrity and glamour; Glamorous spaces and places
  • The pleasures of visibility in the catwalkConclusion; Chapter 4 Sporting Pleasures: The Body as Aesthetic Surface; Introduction; The girl body; Defining sports and sports films; The sports film context and girls' sports; Sporting pleasures and kinaesthetics; Sporting pleasures: The body becoming and flow in Blue Crush; Moving together; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Musical Address: Expansion, Confinement and Kinaesthetic Contagion; Introduction; Organizations of music and dance; Musical address and aesthetic modes; Musical address and its kinaesthetic pleasures; Conclusion
  • Chapter 6 Music Video Aesthetics: The Affects of SpectacleIntroduction; Music video aesthetics; The intimate public of girlhood; Modes of spectacle; Intended response: Pleasure; Make It Happen; 13 Going on 30; Adding spectacle to spectacles; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Conclusions and Future Research; Future research; Filmography; Television; Music; Bibliography; Index