Ebook: The road to romance & ruin : teen films and youth culture
Author: Lewis Jon
- Tags: Youth in motion pictures., Authority in motion pictures., Teen films -- Plots themes etc., Culture in motion pictures., PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
- Series: Routledge library editions. Cinema, volume 15
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Routledge
- Language: English
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This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and delinquency, sex and gender, the politics of consumption, the apolitics of youth(ful) rebellion, and regression into nostalgia. Despite the many differences within the genre, this book sees all teen films as focused on a Read more...
Abstract: This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and delinquency, sex and gender, the politics of consumption, the apolitics of youth(ful) rebellion, and regression into nostalgia. Despite the many differences within the genre, this book sees all teen films as focused on a single social concern: the breakdown of traditional forms of authority - school, church, family. Working with the theories of such diverse scholars as Kenneth Keniston, Bruno