Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie

Gender, Genre and Identity (livre en anglais)

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de Frances Smith

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Pays > Etats-Unis

Mots Clés

films pour adolescents, Hollywood

Année d'édition

2017

Editeur

Edinburgh University Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Relié • 256 pages
15,5 x 23,5 cm

ISBN

978-1-4744-1309-1

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Description de l'ouvrage :
An analysis of the Hollywood Teen Movie from a variety of key theoretical perspectives

Rethinking 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)

À propos de l'auteur :
Frances Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. She is the author of 'Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie' (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), which combines close textual analysis and critical theory to argue that the genre possesses a distinct narrative and aesthetic.

Revue de Presse :
Smith’s work here is distinctively knowledgeable, and it will be highly valued among the evolving studies of youth cinema.　 The genre needs some rethinking, and Smith delivers in her analysis with cogent insights, solid research, and significant aesthetic perspectives that other surveys have elided.– Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex (2002; 2014) and Teen Movies (2005)

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