David Buckingham is an Emeritus Professor of Media and Communications at Loughborough University, and a Visiting Professor at Kings College London, UK. His research has focused on children and young people’s interactions with media, and on media literacy education.

• Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction2. Troubling teenagers: how movies constructed the juvenile delinquent 3. Dreamboats, boybands and the perils of showbiz: the rise and fall of the pop film4. Reeling in the years: retrospect and nostalgia in movies about youth5. Gender trouble: cinema and the mystery of adolescent girlhood6. This is England: growing up in Thatcher’s Britain7. Skins and the impossibility of youth television8. Conclusion: histories and futures Further readingTV and filmographyNotesBibliography

"Offering insightful readings of both classic and less known films and TV series, Youth on Screen is a fresh and compelling introduction to mediated representations of adolescence. Buckingham�s analyses of British texts are especially welcome given that U.S. properties have received far more attention to date." Mary Celeste Kearney, author of Girls Make Media and editor of Mediated Girlhoods"Buckingham offers an insightful and highly readable account of how young people have been portrayed on screen and the critical debates that have ensued. In the process, this book sheds new light on the evolving politics of �youth� as a social category."Sue Turnbull, University of Wollongong

David Buckingham is an Emeritus Professor of Media and Communications at Loughborough University, and a Visiting Professor at Kings College London, UK. His research has focused on children and young people’s interactions with media, and on media literacy education.

• Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction2. Troubling teenagers: how movies constructed the juvenile delinquent 3. Dreamboats, boybands and the perils of showbiz: the rise and fall of the pop film4. Reeling in the years: retrospect and nostalgia in movies about youth5. Gender trouble: cinema and the mystery of adolescent girlhood6. This is England: growing up in Thatcher’s Britain7. Skins and the impossibility of youth television8. Conclusion: histories and futures Further readingTV and filmographyNotesBibliography

"Offering insightful readings of both classic and less known films and TV series, Youth on Screen is a fresh and compelling introduction to mediated representations of adolescence. Buckingham�s analyses of British texts are especially welcome given that U.S. properties have received far more attention to date." Mary Celeste Kearney, author of Girls Make Media and editor of Mediated Girlhoods"Buckingham offers an insightful and highly readable account of how young people have been portrayed on screen and the critical debates that have ensued. In the process, this book sheds new light on the evolving politics of �youth� as a social category."Sue Turnbull, University of Wollongong

David Buckingham is an Emeritus Professor of Media and Communications at Loughborough University, and a Visiting Professor at Kings College London, UK. His research has focused on children and young people’s interactions with media, and on media literacy education.

• Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction2. Troubling teenagers: how movies constructed the juvenile delinquent 3. Dreamboats, boybands and the perils of showbiz: the rise and fall of the pop film4. Reeling in the years: retrospect and nostalgia in movies about youth5. Gender trouble: cinema and the mystery of adolescent girlhood6. This is England: growing up in Thatcher’s Britain7. Skins and the impossibility of youth television8. Conclusion: histories and futures Further readingTV and filmographyNotesBibliography

"Offering insightful readings of both classic and less known films and TV series, Youth on Screen is a fresh and compelling introduction to mediated representations of adolescence. Buckingham�s analyses of British texts are especially welcome given that U.S. properties have received far more attention to date." Mary Celeste Kearney, author of Girls Make Media and editor of Mediated Girlhoods"Buckingham offers an insightful and highly readable account of how young people have been portrayed on screen and the critical debates that have ensued. In the process, this book sheds new light on the evolving politics of �youth� as a social category."Sue Turnbull, University of Wollongong