Gemma Edney is a current PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, researching the relationship between music and the representation of girlhood adolescence in contemporary French women’s film, focusing on the work of filmmakers such as Céline Sciamma, Mia Hansen-Løve, and Katell Quillévéré, amongst others. Her research interests lie predominantly in the field of film sound studies, with particular emphasis on the way music interacts with character identity and the formation of subjectivities within the filmic text, and how filmmakers can exploit sound to elicit specific spectator responses. Her wider interests include: contemporary French filmmaking; postfeminist film theory; film affect studies and sensory responses to film; the aesthetics of the teen film; and digital visual cultures, particularly the creation and dissemination of online, open-access visual content and the creation of digital communities around visual material.