Covers the first two weeks of the course, Term 1 2017.
Includes features articles and preemptive work on the two documentaries and the concept of being a teenager.
Category Archives: The Teenager
Week Six – Some Kind of Wonderful
Hi everyone, Below are notes I took this morning for Some Kind of Wonderful. Talking with some students this morning who wanted to know how [...]
Week Six -Teens Now: Current Voices, Current Issues
As TIME magazine’s Sarah Gray recently wrote, “The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Feb. [...]
Week Six – One for the PARENTS!!
Dear parents, It’s been a while since we last spoke. But, thank you to the parents who responded to my last post for parents. This one [...]
Week Six: Speaking for a Generation
Hi everyone, Attached, below, are three introductions that discuss John Hughes’s films and the notion that his work defines a shift in [...]
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: 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 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 [...]
Week Four – Readings
Below are SIX readings for you to review and use. They crystallise many of the ideas we have been discussing and come from Jon Savage’ [...]
