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The Outsiders

Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold

by Ann M. Ciasullo

Type
Studies
Subject
One FilmThe Outsiders
Keywords
Francis Ford Coppola, youth
Publishing date
2024 (August 25, 2024)
Publisher
Routledge
Collection
Cinema and Youth Cultures
1st publishing
2023
Language
English
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Relative size
Physical desc.
Paperback • 134 pages
6 x 9 ½ inches (15 x 24 cm)
ISBN
978-1-032-13339-3
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Book Presentation:
This volume traces the unique trajectory of The Outsiders, from beloved book to beloved movie. Based on S.E. Hinton’s landmark novel, Coppola’s film adaptation tells the story of the Greasers, a gang of working-class boys yearning for security, love, and acceptance in a world ruled by their rival gang, the rich Socs.


The Outsiders: Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold
explores the cultural impact of Hinton’s book, the process by which Coppola made the film, the film’s melodramatic components, the marketing of the movie to a young female audience, and the nostalgia industry that has emerged around it in recent decades, thereby illuminating how The Outsiders stands apart from other teen films of the 1980s. In its depiction of the emotional rather than sexual lives of young men on film and its recognition of the desires of teen girls as an audience, The Outsiders distinguishes itself from the standard teen fare of the era. With seriousness and sincerity, Coppola’s film captures the essence of the oft-repeated, timeless message of the story: ‘Stay gold.’ This volume engages with a wide range of disciplinary approaches—film studies, gender studies, and literary and cultural studies—in order to distinguish The Outsiders as the significant contribution to youth culture that it was in the early 1980s and continues to be in the twenty-first century.

The book fills a gap in existing scholarship on youth culture and is ideal for scholars, students, and teachers in youth cultures, young adult literature, film studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.

About the Author:
Ann M. Ciasullo is professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, USA. She has published essays on bromance films, the television series Mad Men, 1980s nostalgia on Netflix, and humor and feminism in MAD magazine. This is her first book.

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