Screening:Susan Slade (1961)
Lesson 5: Affluence, Malaise, and the Search for Authenticity (Due 9/25)
Readings: Shumway, Laurence. “Rock’n’Roll Soundtracks and the Production of Nostalgia”.
Screening:The Graduate (1967)
PAPER PROPOSAL due Friday, 9/28 by 11PM Lesson 6: Teens and Counterculture (Due 10/2)
Readings: Bodroghkozy, Aniko. “Reel Revolutionaries: An Examination ofHollywood’s Cycle of 1960s Youth Rebellion Films”.
Screening:Easy Rider (1969)
Lesson 7: Teens and Nostalgia (Due 10/9)
Readings: Speed, Lesley. “Tuesday’s Gone: The Nostalgic Teen Film.” Journal of Popular Film & Television. 26.1 Pp 24-32 1998
Screening: American Graffiti (1973)
Lesson 8: Scream Teens (Due 10/16)
Readings: Gill, Pat. The Monstrous Years: Teens, Slasher Films, and the Family
Screening:Halloween (1978)
TEST 1 will be emailed to you by Noon, Thursday 10/18. It’s due Friday, 10/19 by 11PM. Lesson 9: Teens and Mall Culture (Due 10/23)
Readings: Paul, William. “The Kmart Audience at the Mall Movies.”Film History. 6. 4 Pp 487-501
Screening: Fast Times At Ridgemont High Lesson 10: Class and Gender in the 1980s (Due 10/30)
Readings: Bleach, Anthony. “Postfeminist Cliques? Class, Postfeminism, and the Molly Ringwald-John Hughes Films. Pp. 24-44.
Screening:Pretty In Pink Lesson 11: Teens, Race, and Masculinity in the 1990s (Due 11/6)
Readings: Dyson, M.E Between Apocalypse and Redemption.
Screening:Boyz N the Hood Lesson 12: Brave New Girls? (Due 11/13)
Readings: Wald, Gayle. “Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order”
Screening:Clueless (1995)
FINAL PAPER due Friday, 11/16 by 11PM Lesson 13: Teens and the Return of Raunch Culture (Due 11/20)
ScreeningAmerican Pie (2001)
Lesson 14: Teens as Fans (Due 11/27)
Readings: Click, Melissa “Rabid”, “obsessed”, and “frenzied”: Understanding Twilight Fangirls and the Gendered Politics of Fandom. From FlowTV.org Access article via: http://tinyurl.com/blu3hkb
Screening:Twilight (2008)
Lesson 15: Teen Movies Now (Due 12/4)
Readings: TBD
Screening:The Hunger Games (2012)
TEST 2 will be emailed by Noon, Monday, 12/10. It’s due by 11PM on Tuesday, 12/11.