Author Spotlight

Claire Marie Healy

Claire Marie Healy is a writer, an editor, and the founder of Girlhood Studies, an independent research platform exploring cinema, fashion, and image culture. She has written and edited several books on visual culture, most recently Short Form: 40 Years of Music Videos, Ads, and the Art of Moving Images (Mack, 2025).

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Marie Antoinette: Girlhood in the Hall of Mirrors

In her opulent, richly detailed portrait of the ill-fated French royal, Sofia Coppola takes the iconography of the protagonist’s historical moment and makes it resonate with girls’ lives, as they are now and as they have always been.

By Claire Marie Healy

Essays— Nov 10, 2026