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Moonlight
Screening Black Queer Youth
Av Maria Flood
Inbunden, 2021
997 kr
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This book helps readers understand Moonlight’s profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film’s adoption and disruption of traditional coming-of-age themes through the specific prism of Chiron’s childhood and youth. …
Big Wednesday
Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood
Av Mark McKenna
Inbunden, 2024
817 kr
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This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of youth and young manhood.Critically and commercially unsuccessful on its original release, the coming-of-age, surf drama Big Wednesday (1978), has …
Beatles and Film
From Youth Culture to Counterculture
Inbunden, 2020
997 kr
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This concise yet comprehensive study explores the emblematic journey by four young men from Liverpool from the epicentre of teen-led youth culture to the experimentation of the counterculture and beyond. Beginning with the celebration of Britain’s own ‘youthquake’ in the joyous and genre-shifting A …
Commitments
Youth, Music, and Authenticity in 1990s Ireland
Inbunden, 2021
997 kr
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This book examines The Commitments (Parker, 1991) for the first time as a film, rather than an adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s bestselling novel, and as a significant cultural event in 1990s Ireland.A major hit in Ireland and around the world, the film depicts the short-lived attempts of an ensemble of …
Clerks
‘Over the Counter’ Culture and Youth Cinema
Inbunden, 2020
997 kr
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This study of Kevin Smith’s debut film breaks new ground by exploring how Clerks sits at the intersection of political and cultural trends relevant to alternative youth cultures in the early 1990s.Clerks (1994) was born of and appeals to a specific youth subculture, with the multimedia ‘View …
King Creole
The Disputed Territories of 1950s American Youth Culture
Inbunden, 2026
997 kr
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This book positions King Creole in the disputed territories of 1950s youth culture. It is one of Elvis’s best regarded films, but one of his least financially successful. It is a portrait of youthful alienation and juvenile delinquency made at a time when these topics were becoming less fashionable …
American Graffiti
George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation
Av Peter Krämer
Häftad, 2024
313 kr
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Combining a detailed film analysis with archival research and social science approaches, this book examines how American Graffiti (1973), a low-budget and star-less teen comedy by a filmmaker whose only previous feature had been a box office flop, became one of the highest grossing and most highly …
Beatles and Film
From Youth Culture to Counterculture
Häftad, 2023
327 kr
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This concise yet comprehensive study explores the emblematic journey by four young men from Liverpool from the epicentre of teen-led youth culture to the experimentation of the counterculture and beyond. Beginning with the celebration of Britain’s own ‘youthquake’ in the joyous and genre-shifting A …
Mustang
Translating Willful Youth
Av Elif Akçalı, Cüneyt Çakırlar m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
997 kr
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This book provides a critically informed account of the Turkey-born France-based director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut film Mustang (2015), which tells the story of five orphaned sisters living with their grandmother and uncle in a remote Turkish village.The film’s familiar art-house style, and its …
Mustang
Translating Willful Youth
Av Elif Akçalı, Cüneyt Çakırlar m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
347 kr
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This book provides a critically informed account of the Turkey-born France-based director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut film Mustang (2015), which tells the story of five orphaned sisters living with their grandmother and uncle in a remote Turkish village.The film’s familiar art-house style, and its …
Virgin Suicides
Reverie, Sorrow and Young Love
Av Justin Wyatt
Häftad, 2020
385 kr
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Based on the best-selling novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides is director Sofia Coppola’s evocative debut feature of young love, sex, loss and family pressures in mid-1970s America. Acclaimed by both critics and audiences on release, the film is now viewed as a remarkable and bold …
Gidget
Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise
Häftad, 2022
327 kr
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Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise examines the multiplicity of books, films, TV shows, and merchandise that make up the transmedia Gidget universe from the late 1950s to the 1980s. The book examines the Gidget phenomenon as an early and unique teen girl franchise that expands …
Freshman
Comedy and Masculinity in 1920s Film and Youth Culture
Häftad, 2020
371 kr
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Before the advent of the teenager in the 1940s and the teenpic in the 1950s, The Freshman (Taylor and Newmeyer, 1925) represented 1920s college youth culture as an exclusive world of leisure to a mass audience. Starring popular slapstick comedian Harold Lloyd, The Freshman was a hit with audiences …
Clerks
‘Over the Counter’ Culture and Youth Cinema
Häftad, 2023
313 kr
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This study of Kevin Smith’s debut film breaks new ground by exploring how Clerks sits at the intersection of political and cultural trends relevant to alternative youth cultures in the early 1990s.Clerks (1994) was born of and appeals to a specific youth subculture, with the multimedia ‘View …
Hunger Games
Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero
Av Catherine Driscoll, Alexandra Heatwole
Häftad, 2020
371 kr
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The 2012 film The Hunger Games and its three sequels, appearing quickly over the following three years, represent one of the most successful examples of the contemporary popularity of youth-oriented speculative film and television series. This book considers "The Hunger Games" as an intertextual …
L’Auberge espagnole
European Youth on Film
Av Ben McCann
Häftad, 2020
371 kr
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Part romantic comedy, part sitcom, part social drama, L’Auberge espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) recounts a familiar ‘youth’ ritual – the move from university to ‘the real world’, the often complicated personal, romantic and cultural encounters that ensue, and the moral uncertainties that …
Easy A
The End of the High-School Teen Comedy?
Häftad, 2020
371 kr
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Easy A (2010) is the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre and a film that has already been deemed a ‘classic’ by many cultural commentators and popular film critics. By applying interdisciplinary insight to a relatively overlooked movie in academic discussion, …
Boyhood
A Young Life on Screen
Häftad, 2020
394 kr
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This book traces the development of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood from its audacious concept through its tenacious production to its celebrated reception, placing it within the context of cinematic parables about children to demonstrate its distinctive vision. Timothy Shary, author of numerous …
Grease
Gender, Nostalgia and Youth Consumption in the Blockbuster Era
Häftad, 2020
371 kr
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This book offers the first in-depth look at the history, social context, and industrial practices behind this teen musical phenomenon to suggest that social change, especially in terms of gender and sexuality, comes to the surface despite the film’s retro setting, blockbuster business model, and …
Clueless
American Youth in the 1990s
Av Lesley Speed
Häftad, 2020
371 kr
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Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s is a timely contribution to the increasingly prominent academic field of youth film studies. The book draws on the social context to the film’s release, a range of film industry perspectives including marketing, audience reception and franchising, as well as …
Social Network
Youth Film 2.0
Av Neil Archer
Inbunden, 2022
997 kr
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This in-depth study of one of the twenty-first century’s most acclaimed films, The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 considers the contribution of David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s film to the understanding of ‘youth’ in a contemporary, digital age. The book starts by situating The Social Network …
Social Network
Youth Film 2.0
Av Neil Archer
Häftad, 2023
327 kr
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This in-depth study of one of the twenty-first century’s most acclaimed films, The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 considers the contribution of David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s film to the understanding of ‘youth’ in a contemporary, digital age. The book starts by situating The Social Network …
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Youth, Race, and the Hypertext
Inbunden, 2024
854 kr
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Exploring the dynamic genres of animation and comic book films, this book examines the transmedia role of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its critical involvement in attempts to diversify representations in youth-oriented cinema and culture.Several years after the movie’s immense …
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Youth, Race, and the Hypertext
Häftad, 2025
371 kr
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Exploring the dynamic genres of animation and comic book films, this book examines the transmedia role of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its critical involvement in attempts to diversify representations in youth-oriented cinema and culture.Several years after the movie’s immense …
Breakfast Club
John Hughes, Hollywood, and the Golden Age of the Teen Film
Häftad, 2021
371 kr
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The Breakfast Club is a quintessential teen film. This book analyzes how multiple factors coalesced to solidify the status of The Breakfast Club as one of the most emblematic films of the 1980s and one of the most definitive teen films of the genre. The film brings together genre-defining elements …
Easy A
The End of the High-School Teen Comedy?
Inbunden, 2018
997 kr
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Easy A (2010) is the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre and a film that has already been deemed a ‘classic’ by many cultural commentators and popular film critics. By applying interdisciplinary insight to a relatively overlooked movie in academic discussion, …
American Pie
The Anatomy of Vulgar Teen Comedy
Av Bill Osgerby
Häftad, 2021
385 kr
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American Pie represents the most commercially successful example of the vulgar teen comedy, and this book analyses the film's development, audience-appeal and cultural significance.American Pie (1999) is a film that exemplifies that most disparaged of movie genres – the vulgar teen comedy. Largely …
Before Sunrise
Young Love on the Move
Av María del Mar Azcona, Celestino Deleyto
Inbunden, 2023
997 kr
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This book offers a fresh analysis of Before Sunrise that reframes its romance within the contexts of transnational culture and cinema. The book highlights the symbolic value of the film’s construction of transnational youth in the building of a trans-European culture.Engaging with the film’s …
Before Sunrise
Young Love on the Move
Av María del Mar Azcona, Celestino Deleyto
Häftad, 2024
313 kr
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This book offers a fresh analysis of Before Sunrise that reframes its romance within the contexts of transnational culture and cinema. The book highlights the symbolic value of the film’s construction of transnational youth in the building of a trans-European culture.Engaging with the film’s …
Motorcycle Diaries
Youth, Travel and Politics in Latin America
Av Nadia Lie
Inbunden, 2022
997 kr
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The first monograph to examine Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries, this book explains the significance of Salles’ film with respect to the specific category of ‘youth culture’ as a historically and culturally situated concept.The Motorcycle Diaries looks at the film’s engagement with ‘emerging …
