1st Edition

Desire and Consent in Representations of Adolescent Sexuality with Adults

Edited By Maureen Turim, Diane Waldman Copyright 2024
348 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents an innovative comparative view of how the issue of adolescent sexuality and consent is differently treated in various media. Analyzing teenage sexual encounters with adults across a variety of media, including films, television, novels, and podcasts, the volume takes a positive stance on the expression of teenage sexuality, while remaining sensitive to the power of adults to... Read more

List of Illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

 1. Legal, Theoretical, and Ethical Issues in the Debates over Adolescent/Adult Sexuality: An Introduction to the Volume

Maureen Turim and Diane Waldman

Industry History and Practices

2. Willing Clay: Female Adolescence, Consent, and Stardom in Early Hollywood

Diana W. Anselmo

3. Age-Transgressive Relations Between Teens and Adults in 1970s Cinema

Timothy Shary

4. Discursive Responses to an Underage Porn Star: The Traci Lords Scandal

David Church

Adaptation: Literary Sources and Filmic Specificity

5. Lolita and The Lover: Pederosis and the Child

Michael Walsh

6. Silencing Incest Survivors: The Erasure of Shame-Inducing Sexual Arousal in the Adaptations Precious and Bastard Out of Carolina

Michele Meek

7. Coming of Age in Post-Holocaust Hungary: Love and Healing in Those Who Remained

Diane Waldman

Comparative International Textual Analysis

8. Hunger, Discipline, and Order: Queer Adolescent Desire in Mädchen in Uniform and Otra vueltra de tuerca

Daniel Humphrey

9. The Search for a Happy Ending: Adolescent Sexuality in Indian Cinema from Balika Badhu to the Present

Renuka Bisht

10. Exploitation of Adolescent Girls by Adult Men in La niña santa and Madeinusa

Missy Molloy

11. From the Beach to the Bach: Female Coming-of-Age Film in France and New Zealand

Mary M. Wiles

Psychoanalytic Theory and its Discontents

12. Oedipus Rex at Eve’s Bayou or the Little Black Girl Who Left Sigmund Freud in the Swamp

D. Soyini Madison

13. Film Aesthetics, Fantasy, and the Expression of Adolescent Desire in Le Souffle au Coeur (Murmur of the Heart) and Call Me by Your Name

Maureen Turim

Contemporary Television Series

14. Criminalization of Teen Sexuality in Law & Order: SVU

Sujata Moorti and Lisa M. Cuklanz

15. "Maybe if it’s animated…": The Affordances and Limitations of Animated Adolescent Sexuality

 Aaron Kerner

Biography

Maureen Turim is Professor Emerita at the University of Florida

Diane Waldman is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Denver