Cinema has always engaged with the experiences, hopes, fears, and anxieties of—and about—adolescents, teenagers, and young people. This book is a comprehensive and accessible history of the depiction of teenagers in American film, from the silent era to the twenty-first century.
Timothy Shary explores the development of teenage roles across eras and industrial cycles, such as the juvenile delinquent pictures of the 1950s, the beach movies of the 1960s, the horror films of the 1980s, and the fantasy epics of the 2000s. He considers the varied genres of the teen movie—horror and melodrama, romance and adventure, fantasy and science fiction—and its shifting themes and tropes around sex and gender, childhood and adulthood, rebellion and social order, crime and consumer culture. Teen Movies features analyses of films such as Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Splendor in the Grass (1961), Carrie (1976), The Breakfast Club (1985), American Pie (1999), and the Twilight series (2008–2012).
This second edition is updated throughout and features a new chapter examining Millennials and Generation Z on screen, with discussions of many contemporary topics, including queer youth in movies like Moonlight (2016), abortion in films such as Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), and the flourishing of a “tween” cinema as seen in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023).
Table des matières
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The Teen Film in Its Infancy, 1895–1948
2: The Teen Film Matures, 1949–1967
3: Youth Film Rebels, 1968–1979
4: Teen Cinema Is Reborn in Abundance, 1978–1995
5: The Teen Film Takes on a New Century, 1994–2004
6: Generation Z on Screens, 2005–2023
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Timothy Shary is a professor at Eastern Florida State College. He is the author of
Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American Cinema Since 1980 (revised edition, 2014) and editor of
Cinemas of Boyhood: Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality (2021), among other books.
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