TEEN FILM

Teen film is usually discussed as a representation of the changing American teenager, highlighting the institutions of high school a nd the nuclear family, and experiments in sexual development and identity formation. But not every film featuring these components i s a teen film and not every teen film is American. Arguing that teen film is always a story about becoming a citizen and a subject, Teen Film presents a new history of the genre, surveys the existing body of scholarship, and introduces key critical tools for discu ssing tee...[Read more]