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Author Colling, Samantha

Title The aesthetic pleasures of girl teen film / samantha Colling
Published London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion pictures
Form Electronic book
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