Teen movies : a century of American youth
"The purpose of this text is to present students with an accessible history of teenage roles in American movies, moving in a chronological order through various industrial cycles (such as the beach movies of the '60s and the horror films of the '80s to the fantasy films of the '10s) and across different modes of adolescent representation (such as the "bad boys" of early delinquency depictions and the "nerdy girls" of more recent school movies). T...