ReFocus : : The Films of Amy Heckerling.

• Superior document: ReFocus
• Author: Smith, Frances.
• TeilnehmendeR: Shary, Timothy.
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2016.; ©2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

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