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The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film

By Samantha Colling

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2017
ISBN
9781501318498, 9781501318528, 9781501318511
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4941837 bytes)
Pages
\177
Time added
2023-05-22 09:12:07

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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. 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 catwalk Conclusion 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 Spectacle Introduction 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

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