Barbara Jane Brickman is an assistant professor of Media and Gender Studies at the University of Alabama. She has published on youth media, female fandom, and 1970s genre films. She is the author of New American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film.

• Introduction 1. Rydell High Class of ’78: The Teenager in the Me Decade 2. Exploitation and the New Pop Music Blockbuster 3. ‘There Are Worse Things I Could Do’: Nostalgia, Camp, and Critique Through Sexual Retrospection 4. Hopelessly Devoted to Grease, or More Than a Little ‘Travolta Fever’ Conclusion

Barbara Jane Brickman is an assistant professor of Media and Gender Studies at the University of Alabama. She has published on youth media, female fandom, and 1970s genre films. She is the author of New American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film.

• Introduction 1. Rydell High Class of ’78: The Teenager in the Me Decade 2. Exploitation and the New Pop Music Blockbuster 3. ‘There Are Worse Things I Could Do’: Nostalgia, Camp, and Critique Through Sexual Retrospection 4. Hopelessly Devoted to Grease, or More Than a Little ‘Travolta Fever’ Conclusion

Barbara Jane Brickman is an assistant professor of Media and Gender Studies at the University of Alabama. She has published on youth media, female fandom, and 1970s genre films. She is the author of New American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film.

• Introduction 1. Rydell High Class of ’78: The Teenager in the Me Decade 2. Exploitation and the New Pop Music Blockbuster 3. ‘There Are Worse Things I Could Do’: Nostalgia, Camp, and Critique Through Sexual Retrospection 4. Hopelessly Devoted to Grease, or More Than a Little ‘Travolta Fever’ Conclusion