1st Edition

Easy A The End of the High-School Teen Comedy?

By Betty Kaklamanidou Copyright 2018
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

Easy A (2010) is the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre and a film that has already been deemed a ‘classic’ by many cultural commentators and popular film critics. By applying interdisciplinary insight to a relatively overlooked movie in academic discussion, Easy A: The End of the High-School Teen Comedy? is the first in-depth volume that places the... Read more

Introduction: historicizing the teen film in the 2010s 1: In defense of genre groupings: the high-school teen comedy 2: Adaptation and transtextuality in Easy A 3: The unbearable quest for female victory in a post-feminist world 4: Millennials and parents in Easy A 5: Stardom, Emma Stone and the teen movie





 

Biography

Betty Kaklamanidou is a Fulbright scholar and Assistant Professor in Film and Television History and Theory at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the author of The ‘Disguised’ Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood (2016) and Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism: The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com (2013) and co-editor of Politics and Politicians in Contemporary U.S. Television (2016), The Millennials on Film and Television (2014), HBO’s "Girls" (2014) and The 21st Century Superhero (2010). She is currently co-editing a collection on post-2008 European cinema. Betty’s articles have appeared in Television & New Media, Literature/Film Quarterly, Celebrity Studies and The Journal of Popular Romance Studies.