Tag Archives: genre
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: 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 Five – Summary
So, this week we began our study of The Catcher in the Rye. When I first read this book, I have to admit that I hated it or, as Holden might [...]
