Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie by Frances Smith

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie by Frances Smith

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly popular, yet often overlooked, film genre. Reconsidering tropes such as the male juvenile delinquent figure, the makeover and the teen vampire, the book uses a series of detailed case studies of films like Rebel Without a Cause, Grease, Heathers and Twilight to explore the genre's relation to critical concepts of intersectionality, postfeminism and the posthuman. This book is an innovative overview of the Hollywood teen movie and its construction of teen identity.

Smith’s work here is distinctively knowledgeable, and it will be highly valued among the evolving studies of youth cinemaThe genre needs some rethinking, and Smith delivers in her analysis with cogent insights, solid research, and significant aesthetic perspectives that other surveys have elided. -- Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex (2002; 2014) and Teen Movies (2005)

Frances Smith is Teaching Fellow and Convenor of the Writing Lab at University College London.

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ISBN 13	9781474413091
ISBN 10	1474413099
Title	Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie
Author	Frances Smith
Series	Speculative Realism
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Year published	2017-10-31
Number of pages	224
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