Bande de Filles: Girlhood Identities in Contemporary France

by Frances Smith

Book Overview

Few films in the twenty-first century have represented coming-of-age with the beauty and brutality of Bande de Filles (or Girlhood). This book provides an in-depth examination of C line Sciamma's film, focusing on its portrayal of female adolescence in contemporary Paris.

Motivated by the absence of black female characters in French cinema, Sciamma represents the lives of figures that have passed largely unnoticed on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103257030X
• ISBN13: 9781032570303
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 114 Pages