International Cinema and the Girl

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Show girl Effect: Adolescent Girls and (Precarious) “Technologies of Sexiness” in Contemporary Italian Cinema

Chapter 3 Girlfriends, Postfeminism, and the European Chick-Flick in France

Chapter 4 Warrior of Love: Japanese Girlhood’s Postfeminist Asian Body in Cutie Honey (Hideaki Anno, 2004)

Chapter 5 Feminine Adolescence and Transgressive Materiality in the Films of Lucrecia Martel

Chapter 6 A Phenomenology of Girlhood: Being Mia in Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)

Chapter 7 Desire, Outcast: Locating Queer Adolescence

Chapter 8 Bye-Bye to Betty’s Blues and “La Bonne Meuf”: Temporal Drag and Queer Subversions of the Rom-Com in Bye Bye Blondie (Virginie Despentes, 2011)

Chapter 9 Chica Dificil”: Music, Identity, and Agency in Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso, 2002)

Chapter 10 Emotion, Girlhood, and Music in Naissance des pieuvres (Céline Sciamma, 2007) and Un amour de jeunesse (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011)

Chapter 11 The Pleasures of Music Video Aesthetics in Girl Teen Film

Chapter 12 Where’s Girlhood? The Female Child Killer in Where’s Mary? (Tony Hickson, 2005)

Chapter 13 Performing History: Girlhood and Sib/The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998)

Chapter 14 Girlhood in a Warzone: African Child Soldiers in Film

Chapter 15 Daddy’s Little Sidekick: The Girl Superhero in Contemporary Cinema