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Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema


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When teenagers began hanging out at the mall in the early 1980s, the movies followed. Multiplex theaters offered teens a wide array of perspectives on the coming-of-age experience, as well as an escape into the alternative worlds of science fiction and horror. Youth films remained a popular and profitable genre through the 1990s, offering teens a place to reflect on their evolving identities from adolescence to adulthood while simultaneously shaping and maintaining those identities. Drawing examples from hundreds of popular and lesser-known youth-themed films, Timothy Shary here offers a comprehensive examination of the representation of teenagers in American cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. He focuses on five subgenres- school, delinquency, horror, science, and romance/sexuality - to explore how they represent teens and their concerns, how these representations change over time, and how youth movies both mirror and shape societal expectations and fears about teen identities and roles. He concludes that while some teen films continue to exploit various notions of youth sexuality and violence, most teen films of the past generation have shown an increasing diversity of adolescent experiences and have been sympathetic to the particular challenges that teens face.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by David Considine; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Cinematic Image of Youth; Social Representation and Genre Analysis; The Study of Youth, In and Out of Movies; Chapter 2. Youth in School: Academics and Attitude; Trends in the Subgenre; Schoolkids; Delinquents and Their Avenues of Anger; Resisting Rebels; The Labor of Being Popular; The Sensitive Athlete; Conclusion; Chapter 3. Delinquent Youth: Having Fun, On the Loose, In Trouble; Trends in the Subgenre; Delinquent Styles; Deviant Dancing; Natural Encounters; Patriotic Purpose; Tough Girls; The African American Crime Drama; Conclusion; Chapter 4. The Youth Horror Film: Slashers and the Supernatural; Historical Context of the Youth Horror Subgenre; Trends in the Subgenre; Research on the Youth Horror Film; Styles of the Youth Horror Film; The Slasher/Stalker Film; Supernatural Movies; Conclusion; Chapter 5. Youth and Science: Technology, Computers, Games; The Three Dimensions; Simple Science; Games and Computers; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Youth in Love and Having Sex; Contexts and Trends; Patterns and Images; Youth in Love; Youth Having Sex; Conclusion; Chapter 7. Conclusion: Youth Cinema at the Millennium; Appendix A. Filmography of Youth Films, 1980 -2001; Appendix B. Subjective Superlative Lists; Notes; Bibliography; Index

About the Author :
TIMOTHY SHARY is Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Review :
"Generation Multiplex represents an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between youth and the mass media, in this case movies. From both a personal and a professional perspective, I welcome this work which builds on themes and issues I addressed in The Cinema of Adolescence in 1985." - David Considine, from the Foreword


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780292777521
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 704 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0292777523
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema
  • Width: 153 mm


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