Monthly Archives: February 2018
Week Five – Tutorial Highlights
Some great handouts here: The first is from Abbie, which accompanied a cracking tutorial on Context, Relevance and Blackboard Jungle. Abbie& [...]
Week Five: Genre Over Time
Hi everyone, attached below is an essay based on our work yesterday in class and how the teen film genre can be used to answer questions abo [...]
Week Five: Sweet Bard of Youth
“Sweet Bard of Youth”, an article by David Kamp, appeared in Vanity Fair in 2010, following John Hughes sudden death in 2009. Th [...]
Week Four – Where Were You in ’62?
Read and annotate the following articles. Scan the results and add to your personal blog. American Graffiti Read the Introduction and Chapte [...]
Week Four – California, New York and the London Docks
Gidget, West Side Story, and To Sir With Love arise during a period of turmoil, when old ways and grand narratives about gender, race and cl [...]
Week Four – Tutorial Highlights
This detailed paper about the notion of juvenile delinquency as explored in Blackboard Jungle, from Liam’s tutorial, is worth reading [...]
Week Four – Student Handouts
First to go, Tahlia delivered a cracking start to the film tutorial series this term . . . and on the day after the Swimming Carnival. Well [...]
Week Four: Thoughts on the Golden Era of Teenpics
Read the following documents and, as your teacher takes you through it, make notes in your files: [...]
Week Three – Teenagers and Teenpics
The following two articles, the first two chapters from Thomas Doherty’s Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movie [...]
Week Two: Formative Paragraphs
Hi everyone: Below is an extended table, in which you will find the one paragraph written by each of your peers on recent secondary readings [...]
Week Two Term Two – The Golden Era: 1950s Film
The film we begin with in our exploration of the teen genre–texts that focus on teenagers, adolescence and coming of age–is Reb [...]
Week One Term 2 – Tutorials
This week you have been given your tutorial topics for Task Three. This task is worth 10% of your years mark and represents a significant am [...]
