Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1: The Child on Screen: Capturing Youth Chapter 2: An Audacious Adventure: Making the Life of Mason Chapter 3: Understanding Boyhood: The Child Becomes a Teenager Chapter 4: Understanding Boyhood: The Teenager Becomes a Man Chapter 5: The Moment of This Boy’s Life
Biography
Timothy Shary has published seven books on the representational politics of age and gender, beginning with Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema (2002; 2014), and most recently Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema (2016) with Nancy McVittie. His work on youth cinema has been published in numerous books and journals since the 1990s, including The Journal of Film and Video, Film Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Boyhood Studies.






