International Cinema and the Girl

Fiona Handyside is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, UK.   Kate Taylor-Jones is Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK.

• Introduction; Fiona Handyside and Kate Taylor-JonesPART I: GIRLHOOD AND POSTFEMINISM GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES1. The Showgirl Effect: Adolescent Girls and (Precarious) "technologies of sexiness" in Contemporary Italian Cinema; Danielle Hipkins,2. Girlfriends, Postfeminism, and the European Chick-Flick in France; Mary Harrod3. Warrior of Love: Japanese Girlhood and Postfeminist Corporeality in Cutie Honey (Hideaki Anno, 2004); Joel GwynnePART II: PHILOSOPHIES OF GIRLHOOD ON FILM4. Feminine Adolescence and Transgressive Materiality in the Films of Lucrecia Martel; Deborah Martin5. A Phenomenology of Girlhood: Being Mia in Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009); Lucy Bolton6. Desire, Outcast: Locating Queer Adolescence; Clara Bradbury-Rance7. 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); Lara CoxPART III: SONIC YOUTH: GIRLHOOD, MUSIC, AND IDENTITY8. "Chica Dificil": Music, Identity, and Agency in Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso, 2002); Tim McNelis9. Emotion, Girlhood and Music in Naissance des pieuvres/Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma, 2007) and Un amour de jeunesse/Goodbye, First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011); Fiona Handyside10. The Pleasures of Music Video Aesthetics in Girl Teen Film; Samantha CollingPART IV: EXTRA-ORDINARY GIRLHOODS11. Where's Girlhood? The Female Child Killer in Where's Mary? (Tony Hickson, 2005); Lisa Downing12. Performing History: Girlhood and The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998); Margherita Sprio13. Girlhood in a Warzone: African Child Soldiers on Film; Kate Taylor-Jones14. Daddy's Little Sidekick: The Girl Superhero in Contemporary Cinema; Marty Zeller-Jacques

"International Cinema and the Girl (2016), edited by Fiona Handyside and Kate Taylor-Jones, is a welcome and important contribution at the intersection of girls studies and feminist film theory. ... This is a balanced and exciting collection of essays. ... The editors have achieved their aim of assembling an impressive collection of essays that reassert the specificity of the girl on screen in her local and individual context, while also attending to the global issues that the films address." (Elspeth Mitchell, Girlhood Studies, Vol. 10 (1), 2017)