Christina G. Petersen is Christian Nielsen associate professor of film studies at Eckerd College. She has published on identity and embodiment in American cinema, including essays on the origins of the youth film, the independent African American race film industry, international avant-garde cinema, and contemporary film exhibition technology.

• Introduction: When Both Were Young1. ‘A Large Football Stadium with a College Attached’: 1920s Collegiate Youth Culture2. ‘Just a Regular Fellow’: Harold Lloyd and Silent-Era Middle-Class Masculinity3. ‘The College Hero’: The Freshman’s Individual Conformist4. ‘Laugh and Live Longer’: The Mass Marketing and Reception of The Freshman Conclusion: Before the Teenpic

Christina G. Petersen is Christian Nielsen associate professor of film studies at Eckerd College. She has published on identity and embodiment in American cinema, including essays on the origins of the youth film, the independent African American race film industry, international avant-garde cinema, and contemporary film exhibition technology.

• Introduction: When Both Were Young1. ‘A Large Football Stadium with a College Attached’: 1920s Collegiate Youth Culture2. ‘Just a Regular Fellow’: Harold Lloyd and Silent-Era Middle-Class Masculinity3. ‘The College Hero’: The Freshman’s Individual Conformist4. ‘Laugh and Live Longer’: The Mass Marketing and Reception of The Freshman Conclusion: Before the Teenpic

Christina G. Petersen is Christian Nielsen associate professor of film studies at Eckerd College. She has published on identity and embodiment in American cinema, including essays on the origins of the youth film, the independent African American race film industry, international avant-garde cinema, and contemporary film exhibition technology.

• Introduction: When Both Were Young1. ‘A Large Football Stadium with a College Attached’: 1920s Collegiate Youth Culture2. ‘Just a Regular Fellow’: Harold Lloyd and Silent-Era Middle-Class Masculinity3. ‘The College Hero’: The Freshman’s Individual Conformist4. ‘Laugh and Live Longer’: The Mass Marketing and Reception of The Freshman Conclusion: Before the Teenpic