New American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film - Couverture rigide

Brickman, PhD Barbara Jane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1441176586 ISBN 13 : 9781441176585

Editeur : Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2012

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Barbara Jane Brickman's smart and engaging reading of youth-oriented films of the 1970s charters new territory by uncovering their subversive potential in their treatment of issues of gender, generation, and sexuality. Her informative and insightful analysis of some of the decade's most popular films is a welcomed addition to the study of the American teen film. ----Stephen Tropiano, author of Rebels & Chicks: A History of the Hollywood Teen Movie

New American Teenagers is an invigorating read that will please media scholars and youth scholars alike. Barbara Brickman actively and purposefully rescues for us the teen films and teen viewers of the 1970s, exploring this era of cinema through a blend of intriguing psychoanalytical, feminist, and queer film theories in a manner that provokes reconsideration of key texts. --Sharon Marie Ross, co-editor of Teen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom

Through a series of thorough and sometimes humorous analyses of teen film trends in the '70s, Brickman highlights the contributions of the genre to broader developments such as feminism, gay rights, educational reform, and the political power of youth. --Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The author challenges the neglect of the 1970s in studies on teen film and youth culture by locating a number of subversive and critical narratives. Taking a closer look at teen film in the 1970s, "New American Teenagers" uncovers previously marginalized voices that rework the classically male, heterosexual American teenage story. While their parents' era defined the American teenager with the romantic male figure of James Dean, this generation of adolescents offers a dramatically altered picture of transformed gender dynamics, fluid and queered sexuality, and a chilling disregard for the authority of parent, or more specifically, patriarchal culture. Films like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Halloween", and "Badlands" offer a reprieve from the 'straight' developmental narrative, including in the canon of study the changing definition of the American teenager. Barbara Brickman is the first to challenge the neglect of this decade in discussions of teen film by establishing the subversive potential and critical revision possible in the narratives of these new teenage voices, particularly in regards to changing notions of gender and sexuality.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1441176586
• ISBN 13: 9781441176585
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280