Rethinking The Hollywood Teen Movie: Gender, Genre And Identity - 9781474413091

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.

• | Author: Frances Smith
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 18, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 1474413099
• | ISBN-13: 9781474413091