Timothy Shary is a professor at Eastern Florida State College. He is the author of Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American Cinema Since 1980 (revised edition, 2014) and editor of Cinemas of Boyhood: Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality (2021), among other books.

Teen Movies provides an extraordinary amount of history in a compact and absorbing volume. This newly updated edition expands Timothy Shary’s study from the silent era’s first glimmers of teen movies through the diverse representations of youth in the twenty-first century with discussion and mention of dozens of films in each era that touch upon different themes.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: The Teen Film in Its Infancy, 1895–19482: The Teen Film Matures, 1949–19673: Youth Film Rebels, 1968–19794: Teen Cinema Is Reborn in Abundance, 1978–19955: The Teen Film Takes on a New Century, 1994–20046: Generation Z on Screens, 2005–2023ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Timothy Shary is a professor at Eastern Florida State College. He is the author of Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American Cinema Since 1980 (revised edition, 2014) and editor of Cinemas of Boyhood: Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality (2021), among other books.

Teen Movies provides an extraordinary amount of history in a compact and absorbing volume. This newly updated edition expands Timothy Shary’s study from the silent era’s first glimmers of teen movies through the diverse representations of youth in the twenty-first century with discussion and mention of dozens of films in each era that touch upon different themes.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: The Teen Film in Its Infancy, 1895–19482: The Teen Film Matures, 1949–19673: Youth Film Rebels, 1968–19794: Teen Cinema Is Reborn in Abundance, 1978–19955: The Teen Film Takes on a New Century, 1994–20046: Generation Z on Screens, 2005–2023ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Timothy Shary is a professor at Eastern Florida State College. He is the author of Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in American Cinema Since 1980 (revised edition, 2014) and editor of Cinemas of Boyhood: Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality (2021), among other books.

Teen Movies provides an extraordinary amount of history in a compact and absorbing volume. This newly updated edition expands Timothy Shary’s study from the silent era’s first glimmers of teen movies through the diverse representations of youth in the twenty-first century with discussion and mention of dozens of films in each era that touch upon different themes.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: The Teen Film in Its Infancy, 1895–19482: The Teen Film Matures, 1949–19673: Youth Film Rebels, 1968–19794: Teen Cinema Is Reborn in Abundance, 1978–19955: The Teen Film Takes on a New Century, 1994–20046: Generation Z on Screens, 2005–2023ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex