1st Edition
Bande de Filles Girlhood Identities in Contemporary France
By Frances Smith
Copyright 2020
114 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
114 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
114 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Few films in the twenty-first century have represented coming-of-age with the beauty and brutality of Bande de Filles (or Girlhood ). This book provides an in-depth examination of Céline Sciamma’s film, focusing on its portrayal of female adolescence in contemporary Paris. Motivated by the absence of black female characters in French cinema, Sciamma represents the lives of figures that have... Read more
1. Contextualising Bande de Filles/Girlhood 2. Céline Sciamma’s coming-of-age texts 3. Feminising the banlieue in Bande de Filles/Girlhood 4. Solidarity and violence in Bande de Filles/Girlhood 5. Music and the transnational in Bande de Filles/Girlhood 6. Gender fluidity and queer girlhood in Bande de Filles/Girlhood
Biography
Frances Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex (UK). Her research concerns teen cinema, nostalgia, and female authorship. She is the author of Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie and series co-editor of Refocus: The American Directors Series.
