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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.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Cinderella's Pleasures: the power and pleasures of costume
3. Celebrity Glamour: space, place and visibility
4. Sporting Pleasures: the body as aesthetic surface
5. Musical Address: expansion, confinement and kinaesthetic contagion
6. Music Video Aesthetics: the affects of spectacle
7. Conclusions and Future Research
Filmography
Bibliography
