New American Teenagers

The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-03-01
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt609 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441176585

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Introduction: New American Teenagers; Chapter One: Darktown Strutters in Transsexual Transylvania: The Exploitation and Parody of "Teenpics" in the 1970s; Chapter Two: Coming of Age in the 1970s: Revision, Fantasy, and Rage in the Teen-Girl Badlands; Chapter Three: The Queer Kid and Women's Lib; Chapter Four: Bad News Jodie, or How the Disney Family Got Freaky; Chapter Five: Brothers, Sisters, and Chainsaws: The Slasher Film as Locus for Sibling Rivalry; Conclusion: The Legacy of the New American Teenagers, or Beware of Ferris.

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

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