Rebellion and Reconciliation: Social Psychology, Genre, and the Teen Film 1980-1989
Description:
In this dissertation, I bring together film theory, literary criticism, anthropology and psychology to develop a paradigm for the study of teen films that can also be effectively applied to other areas of pop culture studies as well as literary genres. Expanding on Thomas Doherty's discussion of 1950s teen films and Ian Jarvie's study of films as social criticism, I argue that teen films are a discrete genre that appeals to adolescents to the exclusion of other groups. Teen films subvert social…
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Date:
December 1996
Creator:
Hubbard, Christine Karen Reeves
Partner:
UNT Libraries