Teetering on the Edge
Portraits of innocence, risk and young female sexualities in 1950s' and 1960s' British cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4347473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janet Fink (0000-0003-3584-3238, University of Huddersfield, corresponding author), Penny Tinkler (0000-0002-9918-9821, University of Manchester) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-25 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2015.1123021 |
| OpenAlex | W2213234147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article explores how British social problem films in the late 1950s and early 1960s represented social anxieties around the sexuality of girls in their mid to late teens. Its analytic focus is upon the risks posed by modern social life to the teenage girl's sexual innocence and it argues that attending to this hitherto often-neglected sexual state brings new insights to cultural histories of young female sexualities. Discussion draws upon Beat Girl (1959), Rag Doll (1960), Girl on Approval (1961) and Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962), highlighting how these films situated the figure of the teenage girl in the liminal space of child-adult and girl-woman and how this informed concerns about her sexual vulnerability. By unpicking the films' different approaches to viewing and representing this liminal space—through the lenses of adolescence and young womanhood—the authors demonstrate how at this historical juncture the intersections of gender and age are differently emphasised and given meaning in cinematic portrayals of sexual innocence
Art · Art history · Human sexuality · Innocence · Movie theater · Portrait · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |