The Construction of the Girl and the Teenager in Céline Sciamma’s Cinema

• Main Author: Amanda Briones Marrero
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Alicante 2016-06-01
• Series: Feminismo/s
• Subjects: cine; mujer; céline sciamma; feminismo; identidad; sexualidad
• Online Access: https://feminismos.ua.es/article/view/2016-n27-la-construccion-de-la-nina-y-la-adolescente-en-el-cine-de-celine-sciamma

Cinema is still a men’s field more than women’s, something that studies from the New York Film Academy, the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative or the Bechdel Test Movie List have backed up. However, statistics are slowly showing optimistic results, and Céline Sciamma is one of the women who are making them improve. She is a young French director, whom trilogy (Naissance de Pieuvres, Tomboy y Bande de Filles) is focused in women, specially little girls and teenagers, and how the puberty process affects their feelings and the discovery of their identity and sexuality. These pages will analyze how Sciamma is contributing to the seventh art with her films and how she transforms woman into an active subject, not a passive one, changing this way the established narrative structures in the prevailing cinema.