Space, Gender, and Identity in Sciamma's Girlhood and Arnold's Fish Tank
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12975287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie Puysségur (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 117-132 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2020.130109 |
| OpenAlex | W3009679594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
In this article, I explore the use of space in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank and Céline Sciamma’s Bande de Filles, two films that depict the experiences of 15-year-old girls in a British housing estate and a Parisian banlieue respectively. The spatial motifs related to identity that circulate throughout the films establish a regime of flux, ambiguity, and reversibility that contributes to a depiction of female adolescence as unfixed and unsettled. I argue that both films, in their focus on the lived experience of their protagonists, investigate the landscape of economically and socially peripheral spaces to develop a specifically female approach to contemporary coming-of-age narratives that takes into account the difference that gender makes
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Depiction · Estate · Fish · Fishery · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |