Category Archives: Genre
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 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: 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 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 Four – Documentary Readings
These readings may be useful in preparing you for your essay. [...]
