1st Edition

The Road to Romance and Ruin Teen Films and Youth Culture

By Jon Lewis Copyright 1992
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and delinquency, sex and gender, the politics of consumption, the apolitics of youth(ful) rebellion, and regression into nostalgia. Despite the many differences within the genre, this book sees all teen films... Read more

Introduction  1. The End of the World (As We Know It)  2. The Path of the Damned  3. The Way of the Beautiful  4. The Struggle for Fun  5. The Apolitics of Style  6. The Road to Ruin

Biography

Jon Lewis