Teen Film

A Critical Introduction

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by Catherine Driscoll

Type

Studies

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

teen movies

Publishing date

2011

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Collection

Film Genres

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 192 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-84788-686-6

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Catherine Driscoll is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, and author of Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory, Modernist Cultural Studies, Teen Film: A Critical Introduction, The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience, and The Hunger Games: Spectacle, Risk, and the Girl Action Hero.

Press Reviews:
"an important new contribution to the field, as well as being the introductory text it claims to be" -- Media International Australia.

"innovative and compelling" -- Senses of Cinema

See the publisher website: Bloomsbury Academic