Refocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling

ISBN-13: 9781474404617 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 280 str.

Smith Frances and Sh; Frances Smith; Timothy Shary

Opis

Refocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and screenwriter of Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. As such, the book constitutes a significant intervention in Film Studies, prompting a reconsideration of the importance of Heckerling both in the development of Teen cinema, and as a figure in Hollywood comedy. As part of the Refocus series, the volume brings together outstanding original essays examining Heckerling's work from a variety of perspectives, including film, television and cultural studies and is destined to be used widely in undergraduate teaching.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Film and Television Work by Amy Heckerling; Chapter 1: Introduction, Frances Smith and Timothy Shary; I: Heckerling in Teen Film and Television; Chapter 2: Cher and Dionne BFFs: Female Friendship, Genre, and Medium Specificity in the Film and Television Versions of Amy Heckerling’s Clueless, Susan Berridge; Chapter 3: Fast Times with Clueless Losers: Lessons on Sex and Gender in Amy Heckerling’s Teen Films, Zachary Finch; Chapter 4: “As If a Girl’s Reach Should Exceed Her Grasp”: Gendering Genericity and Spectatorial Address in the Work of Amy Heckerling, Mary Harrod; II: Ingenuity and Irony in the Heckerling Lexicon; Chapter 5: Consumerism and the Languages of Class: American Teenagers View Amy Heckerling’s Clueless, Andrea Press and Ellen Rosenman; Chapter 6: “An increasingly valid form of expression”: Teen-speak and Community Identity in the Work of Amy Heckerling, Lisa Richards; III: Femininity, Ageing, and Postfeminism; Chapter 7: Look Who’s Doing the Caring: Shared Parenting, Subjectivity, and Gender Roles in Heckerling’s Look Who’s Talking Films, Claire Jenkins; Chapter 8: Amy Heckerling’s Place in Hollywood: Issues of Aging and Sisterhood in I Could Never Be Your Woman and Vamps, Betty Kaklamanidou; Chapter 9: “Staying Young is Getting Old”: Youth and Immortality in Vamps, Murray Leeder; IV: Reflections on the Heckerling Oeuvre; Chapter 10: “But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl”: The Teenage Female Empowerment Payoff in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless, Stefania Marghitu and Lindsey Alexander; Chapter 11: Clueless Times at the Ferris Bueller Club: A Critical Analysis of the Directorial Works of Amy Heckerling and John Hughes, Kimberly M. Miller; Chapter 12: Way Hilarious: Amy Heckerling as a Female Comedy Director, Writer, and Producer, Lesley Speed; Appendix: Other Films and Television Shows Cited in this Collection; Bibliography; Contributors