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The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema) - Hardcover

Lewis, Jon

 
9780415726801: The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415726808 ISBN 13: 9780415726801
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and delinquency, sex and gender, the politics of consumption, the apolitics of youth(ful) rebellion, and regression into nostalgia. Despite the many differences within the genre, this book sees all teen films as focused on a single social concern: the breakdown of traditional forms of authority – school, church, family.

Working with the theories of such diverse scholars as Kenneth Keniston, Bruno Bettelheim, Erik Erikson, Theodor Adorno, Simon Frith, and Dick Hebdige, the author draws an innovative and flexible model of a cultural history of youth. Originally published in 1992.

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Jon Lewis

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415726808
ISBN 13 
9780415726801
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192