ReFocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling
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ReFocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling

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ReFocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2016
Edition
0
eBook ISBN
9781474404624
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. ReFocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Figures
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Film and Television Work by Amy Heckerling
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. Part I Heckerling in Teen Film and Television
  10. Introduction to Part I
  11. 2 Cher and Dionne BFFs: Female Friendship, Genre, and Medium Specificity in the Film and Television Versions of Amy Heckerling's Clueless
  12. 3 Fast Times with Clueless Losers: Lessons on Sex and Gender in Amy Heckerling’s Teen Films
  13. 4 “As If a Girl’s Reach Should Exceed Her Grasp”: Gendering Genericity and Spectatorial Address in the Work of Amy Heckerling
  14. Part II Ingenuity and Irony in the Heckerling Lexicon
  15. Introduction to Part II
  16. 5 Consumerism and the Languages of Class: American Teenagers View Amy Heckerling’s Clueless
  17. 6 “An Increasingly Valid Form of Expression”: Teenspeak and Community Identity in the Work of Amy Heckerling
  18. Part III Femininity, Aging, and Postfeminism
  19. Introduction to Part III
  20. 7 Look Who’s Doing the Caring: Shared Parenting, Subjectivity, and Gender Roles in Heckerling’s Look Who's Talking Films
  21. 8 Amy Heckerling’s Place in Hollywood: Issues of Aging and Sisterhood in I Could Never Be Your Woman and Vamps
  22. 9 ‘Staying Young is Getting Old’: Youth and Immortality in Vamps
  23. Part iv Reflections on the Heckerling Oeuvre
  24. Introduction to Part IV
  25. 10 “But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl”: The Teenage Female Empowerment Payoff in Amy Heckerling's Clueless
  26. 11 Clueless Times at the Ferris Bueller Club: A Critical Analysis of the Directorial Works of Amy Heckerling and John Hughes
  27. 12 Way Hilarious: Amy Heckerling as a Female Comedy Director, Writer, and Producer
  28. Appendix: Other Films and Television Shows Cited in this Collection
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index

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