Cinemas of Boyhood

Timothy Shary is the author of numerous books on youth and film, including Boyhood: A Young Life (Routledge, 2017), and Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2002; revised 2014). He is co-author of Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2016), and his publications have appeared in The Journal of Film and Video, Film Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Boyhood Studies.

“The organizational scheme is laudable—Shary includes essays on individual films, auteurs, decades, and national cinemas. Future works on boyhood in cinema could build on any of these organizational categories to contribute to this nascent field…Highly Recommended.” • Choice

• IntroductionTimothy SharyPART IChapter 1. Transition, Crisis and Nostalgia: Youth Masculinity and Postfeminism in Contemporary Hollywood, an Analysis of SuperbadVictoria Cann and Erica HortonChapter 2. The Once and Future King: Negotiating the Survival of Boys in 1990s CinemaKatie BarnettChapter 3. Transing Normative Boyhood Masculinity in Alain Berliner's Ma Vie en RoseGust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo and Ryan M. LescureChapter 4. Adolescent Same-Sex Romance and Non-Traditional Masculinity in Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho and Do Começo ao FimHannah MuellerPART IIChapter 5. The Rumble of Nostalgia: Francis Ford Coppola’s Vision of BoyhoodMolly LewisChapter 6. Thatcher’s Sons?: 1980s Boyhood in British Cinema, 2005–2010Andy PopeChapter 7. When Jackie Coogan Had His Hair Cut: Masculinity, Maturity, and the Movies in the 1920sPeter W. LeeChapter 8. “I Am Trying” to Perform Like an Ideal Boy: The Construction of Boyhood through Corporal Punishment and Educational Discipline in Taare Zameen ParNatasha AnandChapter 9. Back in Time Yet of His Time: Marty McFly as a 1980s Teenage Boy Role ModelDaniel Smith-Rowsey