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ReFocus
The Films of Amy Heckerling
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Timothy Shary
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2016
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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Notes on Contributors
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Film and Television Work by Amy Heckerling
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Chapter 1 Introduction
1 - Part I Heckerling in Teen Film and Television
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Introduction to Part I
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Chapter 2 Cher and Dionne BFFs: Female Friendship, Genre, and Medium Specificity in the Film and Television Versions of Amy Heckerling’s Clueless
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Chapter 3 Fast Times with Clueless Losers: Lessons on Sex and Gender in Amy Heckerling’s Teen Films
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Chapter 4 “As If a Girl’s Reach Should Exceed Her Grasp”: Gendering Genericity and Spectatorial Address in the Work of Amy Heckerling
53 - Part II Ingenuity and Irony in the Heckerling Lexicon
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Introduction to Part II
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Chapter 5 Consumerism and the Languages of Class: American Teenagers View Amy Heckerling’s Clueless
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Chapter 6 “An Increasingly Valid Form of Expression”: Teenspeak and Community Identity in the Work of Amy Heckerling
97 - Part III Femininity, Aging, and Postfeminism
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Introduction to Part III
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Chapter 7 Look Who’s Doing the Caring: Shared Parenting, Subjectivity, and Gender Roles in Heckerling’s Look Who’s Talking Films
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Chapter 8 Amy Heckerling’s Place in Hollywood: Issues of Aging and Sisterhood in I Could Never Be Your Woman and Vamps
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Chapter 9 ‘Staying Young is Getting Old’: Youth and Immortality in Vamps
154 - Part IV Reflections on the Heckerling Oeuvre
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Introduction to Part IV
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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
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Chapter 11 Clueless Times at the Ferris Bueller Club: A Critical Analysis of the Directorial Works of Amy Heckerling and John Hughes
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Chapter 12 Way Hilarious: Amy Heckerling as a Female Comedy Director, Writer, and Producer
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Appendix: Other Films and Television Shows Cited in this Collection
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Bibliography
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Index
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February 21, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9781474404624
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
