Handyside Fiona, Taylor-Jones Kate. International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 218 p. — (Global Cinema).From Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to Bella Swan in Twilight, the girl has been a subject of intense cinematic interest. This collection considers the specificity of girls' experiences and their cinematic articulation through a multicultural feminist lens which cuts across the divides of popular/art-house, Western/non Western, and north/south.