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Increasingly, Italian TV addresses crucial issues with respect to girlhood: the representation of female adolescence within media culture; the multiple possibilities of appropriation open to young people as their personalities evolve; and girl friendship as a postfeminist idea of sisterhood (Winch, Girlfriends and postfeminist sisterhood. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013). It puts sex and sexualisation in the spotlight, leads us to reflect on the aesthetic pleasures of teen viewing (Colling, The aesthetic pleasures of girl teen film. New York: London: Bloomsbury. 2017), and speaks to the way teen television expresses “affective dissonances” with regard to ideals of postfeminist girlhood (Dobson and Kanai, From “Can-Do” girls to insecure and angry: affective dissonances in young women’s post-recessional media. Feminist Media Studies 19 (6):771–786, 2018). Drawing on over 80 interviews with girls aged between 14 and 19 from across Italy, this chapter addresses how Italian TV products sit on a continuum of transnational teen media consumption and representations of femininity. The results demonstrate that TV shows such as Baby (2018–2020), SKAM Italia (2018–), and Mare fuori/The Sea Beyond (2020–) provide female adolescents with many different points of temporary attachment within media discourses: they can select and combine different female role models, creating a bricolage of personalities, an identity under construction.

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A Girls’-Eye View: Exploring Television Representations of Italian Girlhood Through the Lens of Italian Female Adolescence

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  • Romana Andò,
  • Danielle Hipkins

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Increasingly, Italian TV addresses crucial issues with respect to girlhood: the representation of female adolescence within media culture; the multiple possibilities of appropriation open to young people as their personalities evolve; and girl friendship as a postfeminist idea of sisterhood (Winch, Girlfriends and postfeminist sisterhood. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013). It puts sex and sexualisation in the spotlight, leads us to reflect on the aesthetic pleasures of teen viewing (Colling, The aesthetic pleasures of girl teen film. New York: London: Bloomsbury. 2017), and speaks to the way teen television expresses “affective dissonances” with regard to ideals of postfeminist girlhood (Dobson and Kanai, From “Can-Do” girls to insecure and angry: affective dissonances in young women’s post-recessional media. Feminist Media Studies 19 (6):771–786, 2018). Drawing on over 80 interviews with girls aged between 14 and 19 from across Italy, this chapter addresses how Italian TV products sit on a continuum of transnational teen media consumption and representations of femininity. The results demonstrate that TV shows such as Baby (2018–2020), SKAM Italia (2018–), and Mare fuori/The Sea Beyond (2020–) provide female adolescents with many different points of temporary attachment within media discourses: they can select and combine different female role models, creating a bricolage of personalities, an identity under construction.