Le quotidien des Girls et la morale de l’ordinaire

Abstract

Girls (HBO, 2012-17), produced by Judd Apatow, written by Lena Dunham (who was also director, coproducer, and leading actress) deals with the “Coming of age” of four young women living in New York, looking for a job and for sexual accomplishment. The series promotes their personal experience, both in the sense of lived experience and agency. It fits perfectly with Stanley Cavell’s reflexion on how we can learn from our experience of viewing a movie.This article is based on the organization, within an academic course, of a conversation with and between students (aged 21-26), as a means to observe the personal appropriation by young French adults of the situations of ordinary life staged in the first season of this series.

Keywords

• expertise
• moral
• ordinary
• reception
• sexuality