Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film

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.

• Series Editor IntroductionIntroduction: 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 ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Given its centering of contemporary representations of girlhood in British cinema, Sarah Hill’s monograph is a welcome addition to girls’ media studies, which heretofore has been dominated by research on American texts, not to mention British film studies, which has focused overwhelmingly on adult-centered texts. With close attention to nationally specific class and gender politics, as well as creative traditions and transformations, this book offers new ways for understanding recent mediated depictions of British girlhood within their specific industrial and sociocultural contexts.