The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501349010)

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.

Author: Samantha Colling
ISBN-10: 1501349015
ISBN-13: 9781501349010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2019
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d