TY  - BOOK
AU  - Handyside,Fiona
AU  - Taylor-Jones,Kate
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts 
T2  - Global Cinema
SN  - 9781137388926(ebook:PDF)
U1  - 791.4309 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US(Imprint)
KW  - Motion pictures-History
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Film History
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Childhood, Adolescence and Society
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388926
ER  -