Teen Film
eBook - PDF

Teen Film

A Critical Introduction

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Teen Film

A Critical Introduction

About this book

What makes a film a teen film? And why, when it represents such powerful and enduring ideas about youth and adolescence, is teen film usually viewed as culturally insignificant?Teen film is usually discussed as a representation of the changing American teenager, highlighting the institutions of high school and the nuclear family, and experiments in sexual development and identity formation. But not every film featuring these components is a teen film and not every teen film is American. Arguing that teen film is always a story about becoming a citizen and a subject, Teen Film presents a new history of the genre, surveys the existing body of scholarship, and introduces key critical tools for discussing teen film.Surveying a wide range of films including The Wild One, Heathers, Akira and Donnie Darko, the book's central focus is on what kind of adolescence teen film represents, and on teen film's capacity to produce new and influential images of adolescence.

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Part 
I
Histories

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I Histories
  6. 1 Modernism, Cinema, Adolescence
  7. 2 The Teenager and Teenage Film
  8. 3 Inventing ‘Teen Film’
  9. Part II Film Teens
  10. 4 Rites of Passage
  11. 5 Teen Types and Stereotypes
  12. 6 Teenage Wasteland
  13. Part III Liminal Teen Film
  14. 7 Classification
  15. 8 Adaptability
  16. 9 Which Teen/Film?
  17. Notes
  18. Annotated Guide to Further Reading
  19. Filmography (includes television)
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index