Cinema and Youth Cultures
About the Book Series
Cinema and Youth Cultures engages with well-known youth films from American cinema as well the cinemas of other countries. Using a variety of methodological and critical approaches the series volumes provide informed accounts of how young people have been represented in film, while also exploring the ways in which young people engage with films made for and about them. In doing this, the Cinema and Youth Cultures series contributes to important and long standing debates about youth cultures, how these are mobilized and articulated in influential film texts and the impact that these texts have had on popular culture at large.
Series Editors: Siân Lincoln (independent scholar) and Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool)
Published volumes:
Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s (2017)
Grease: Gender, Nostaligia and Youth Consumption in the Blockbuster Era (2017)
Boyhood: A Young Life on Screen (2017)
Easy A: The End of the High-School Teen Comedy? (2018)
The Hunger Games: Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero (2018)
L’auberge Espagnole: European Youth on Film (2018)
The Virgin Suicides: Reverie, Sorrow and Young Love (2018)
The Freshman: Comedy and Masculinity in 1920s Film and Youth Culture (2019)
The Breakfast Club: John Hughes, Hollywood, and the Golden Age of Teen Film (2019)
Y Tu Mama También: Mythologies of Youth (2019)
Halloween: Youth Cinema and the Horrors of Growing Up (2019)
American Pie: The Anatomy fo Vulgar Teen Comedy (2019)
Bande de Filles: Girlhood Identities in Contemporary France (2020)
Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise (2020)
The Beatles and Film: From Youth Culture to Counterculture (2020)
Clerks: ‘Over the Counter’ Culture and Youth Cinema (2020)
Forthcoming:
American Graffiti
Rock Around the Clock
Precious
Mary Poppins
Big Wednesday
Moonlight
The Commitments
King Creole
Mustang
The Outsiders
The Motorcycle Diaries
Before Sunrise
Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s
1st Edition
By Lesley Speed
December 18, 2020
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 ...
Easy A: The End of the High-School Teen Comedy?
1st Edition
By Betty Kaklamanidou
December 18, 2020
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, ...
Grease: Gender, Nostalgia and Youth Consumption in the Blockbuster Era
1st Edition
By Barbara Jane Brickman
December 18, 2020
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 ...
L’Auberge espagnole: European Youth on Film
1st Edition
By Ben McCann
December 18, 2020
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 ...
The Freshman: Comedy and Masculinity in 1920s Film and Youth Culture
1st Edition
By Christina G. Petersen
December 18, 2020
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 ...
The Hunger Games: Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero
1st Edition
By Catherine Driscoll, Alexandra Heatwole
December 18, 2020
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 ...
The Virgin Suicides: Reverie, Sorrow and Young Love
1st Edition
By Justin Wyatt
August 14, 2020
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 ...