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By Samantha Colling

ISBN-10: 1501318497

ISBN-13: 9781501318498

what's 'fun' in regards to the Hollywood model of girlhood? via re-evaluating notions of enjoyment and enjoyable, The Aesthetic Pleasures of lady teenager Film varieties a learn of Hollywood woman teenager motion pictures among 2000-2010. by way of tracing the classy connections among movies comparable to Mean Girls (Waters, 2004), Hairspray (Shankman, 2007), and Easy A (Gluck, 2010), the booklet articulates the categorical varieties of excitement those movies supply as a method to appreciate how Hollywood creates gendered principles of enjoyable. instead of condemn those movies as 'guilty pleasures' this publication units out to appreciate how they're designed to create stories that consider as if they exhibit wishes, thoughts, or fantasies that ladies supposedly proportion in universal. offering a realistic version for a brand new method of cinematic pleasures The Aesthetic Pleasures of lady teenager Film proposes that those motion pictures provide a constrained model of girlhood that sounds like power and promise yet is particular inside of prescribed parameters.

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