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 [...]
Week One Term Two – Welcome Back!
It is clear that, after a long break such as the one we have all enjoyed, motivating and reengaging ourselves with the work at hand can be t [...]
Week Seven – Essay Writing
Notes from our seminar after school. Read carefully. PowerPoint – Essay Writing for 12 ATAR Dos and Don’ts – What Were Loo [...]
Week Seven – Catcher in the Rye Secondary Readings
The Catcher in the Rye is the first novel to explore the psychological and emotional world of the teenager. In this sense, Holden Caulfield [...]
Week Six – Catcher in the Rye, Close Reading of Ch1
By now, you should have completed a (very) close reading of the opening chapter of the novel. The chapter does a lot of ‘heavy lifting [...]
