ReFocus : : The Films of Amy Heckerling.
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...
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| Superior document: | ReFocus |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2016. ©2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ReFocus
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 pages) |
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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.