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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie
:
Gender, Genre and Identity
Contains:
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Rethinking the Teen Movie
3. Acting Up: Performing Masculine Delinquency in the Teen Movie
4. Making Over: Gender and Class at the High School Prom
5. Looking Back: Nostalgia, Postfeminism and the Teen Movie
6. Becoming Other: The Posthuman and the Teen Movie
7. Conclusion: Not Another Teen Movie?
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
Description:
An analysis of the Hollywood Teen Movie from a variety of key theoretical perspectivesRethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly popular, yet often overlooked, film genre. Reconsidering tropes such as the male juvenile delinquent figure, the makeover and the teen vampire, the book uses a series of detailed case studies of key films like Rebel Without a Cause, Grease, Heathers and Twilight to explore the genre’s relation to key critical concepts of intersectionality, postfeminism and the posthuman, and provides an innovative overview of the Hollywood teen movie and its construction of teen identity.Case studies include:Rebel Without a Cause (Nicolas Ray, 1955)Grease (Randel Kleiser, 1978)Heathers (Mark Lehmann, 1989)Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986)She’s All That (Robert Iscove, 1999)Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004)American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987)Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010)Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2001)Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)Chronicle (Josh Trank, 2012)