The Girl in Global Cinema: A Symposium
UCL, 12 July, 2013
Wilkins Haldane Room
10.15am - 5.30pm
The symposium aims to broaden the scope of work considering girls, girl culture, and its representations and resonances within cinema. We are looking to move beyond an Anglo-American focus, and keen to bring aesthetic, cultural studies, and sociological approaches into dialogue with each other. The symposium will address:
i) the existence of ‘girl culture’ in cinema, and especially the global relevance of this concept, as well as the interaction of ‘postfeminism’ with local cultures;
ii) the articulation of contemporary girlhoods within a wide range of films from around the world (beyond the narrow canon of Anglo-American examples that have dominated scholarship so far);
iii) the mobilization of the girl in film to problematize understandings of subjectivity and identity, and how are this is articulated at the aesthetic level.
Generously supported by the UCL Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies and Exeter University
i) the existence of ‘girl culture’ in cinema, and especially the global relevance of this concept, as well as the interaction of ‘postfeminism’ with local cultures;
ii) the articulation of contemporary girlhoods within a wide range of films from around the world (beyond the narrow canon of Anglo-American examples that have dominated scholarship so far);
iii) the mobilization of the girl in film to problematize understandings of subjectivity and identity, and how are this is articulated at the aesthetic level.
Generously supported by the UCL Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies and Exeter University