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Zusatztext Sarah Hill provides an essential account of contemporary British cinema's engagement with youth and femininity that will be of enormous value to scholars of both girlhood studies and British film studies. Examining the national specificities of a number of different postfeminist tropes and conventions! Hill offers insightful close readings of a diverse range of recent British films with young female protagonists! from historical dramas to dance films! and draws out their underlying connections. Young Women! Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film marks an important and original intervention in the interconnected fields of gender studies and film studies. Informationen zum Autor Sarah Hill is Early Career Academic Fellow in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. Her research interests include British cinema, feminist media studies, female authorship and girlhood. Klappentext In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet, British cinema's engagement with contemporary girlhood has - unlike its Hollywood counterpart - been largely ignored until now. Sarah Hill's Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film provides the first book-length study of how young femininity has been constructed, both in films like the St. Trinians franchise and by critically acclaimed directors like Andrea Arnold, Carol Morley and Lone Scherfig. Hill offers new ways to understand how postfeminism informs British cinema and how it is adapted to fit its specific geographical context. By interrogating UK cinema through this lens, Hill paints a diverse and distinctive portrait of modern femininity and consolidates the important academic links between film, feminist media and girlhood studies.Seeks to assess the subtly different ways in which postfeminism is articulated in a British cultural context, with a focus on girlhood. Zusammenfassung In the 21st century! films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet! British cinema's engagement with contemporary girlhood has - unlike its Hollywood counterpart - been largely ignored until now. Sarah Hill's Young Women! Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film provides the first book-length study of how young femininity has been constructed! both in films like the St. Trinians franchise and by critically acclaimed directors like Andrea Arnold! Carol Morley and Lone Scherfig. Hill offers new ways to understand how postfeminism informs British cinema and how it is adapted to fit its specific geographical context. By interrogating UK cinema through this lens! Hill paints a diverse and distinctive portrait of modern femininity and consolidates the important academic links between film! feminist media and girlhood studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor Introduction Introduction: Britain and British Cinema Since the Millennium 1.The Ambitious Young Woman and the Contemporary British Sports Film 2.Girls' Education and the Representation of the British Girls' School 3.Female Friendship and the Formation of Feminine Identity 4.'Future Girls' from the Past Conclusion Bibliography Index ...
