World of Girls in Contemporary Art Cinema for Youth in European Context

@proceedings{13062,
   author = {Hoffmanová, Radka},
   booktitle = {Screenwriting Research Network Conference 2021},
   keywords = {kinematografie; mládež; dívky; současnost; dospívání; stereotypy},
   language = {eng},
   title = {World of Girls in Contemporary Art Cinema for Youth in European Context},
   year = {2021}
}

TY  - CONF
ID  - 13062
AU  - Hoffmanová, Radka
PY  - 2021
TI  - World of Girls in Contemporary Art Cinema for Youth in European Context
KW  - kinematografie
KW  - mládež
KW  - dívky
KW  - současnost
KW  - dospívání
KW  - stereotypy
N2  - We can see many archetypal and standard ways of showing girl characters in contemporary mainstream cinema for youth. This paper deals with the representation of girls in so called art cinema and is about the way how screenwriters are challenging their girl characters to not to fit into the (standard) box. The main questions for me are: What are the stereotypes we can recognize in these characters? And how we can avoid them and show another scale of girlhood? Is it possible that cinema for youth could encourage the target audience (obviously mainly girls but I wouldn’t like to leave out boys from this topic) to be more sensitive and aware of the ways how girls can behave, react in specific situation, or just look like? In my presentation I want to direct your attention to problems which are connected to showing young girls in stereotypical way and talk about pushing the boundaries in creative process of developing girl characters nowadays. My main focus and interest in displaying girl characters in films for youth is based on my doctoral research about contemporary art cinema for youth and also on differences we can notice in comparison with mainstream coming of age drama or teen film.
ER  - 

HOFFMANOVÁ, Radka. World of Girls in Contemporary Art Cinema for Youth in European Context. In \textit{Screenwriting Research Network Conference 2021}. 2021.