Fiona Handyside

Fiona Handyside is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and French at the University of Exeter, UK.

Her research interests are girlhood in film, feminism and film, non-urban spaces in film (especially beaches), and contemporary French and American Indiewood cinema. She is the author of Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood (I.B.Tauris, 2017) and Cinema at the Shore: The Beach in French Film (Peter Lang, 2014). She is the editor of Eric Rohmer: Interviews (University of Mississippi Press, 2013), and co-editor with Kate Taylor-Jones of International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts (Palgrave, 2016).