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Book Synopsis Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood explores the important yet often overlooked subject of boys and boyhood in film. This collected volume features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding representations of boyhood in film.
Trade Review “The organizational scheme is laudable—Shary includes essays on individual films, auteurs, decades, and national cinemas. Future works on boyhood in cinema could build on any of these organizational categories to contribute to this nascent field…Highly Recommended.” • Choice
Table of Contents Introduction
Timothy Shary
PART I
Chapter 1. Transition, Crisis and Nostalgia: Youth Masculinity and Postfeminism in Contemporary Hollywood, an Analysis of Superbad
Victoria Cann and Erica Horton
Chapter 2. The Once and Future King: Negotiating the Survival of Boys in 1990s Cinema
Katie Barnett
Chapter 3. Transing Normative Boyhood Masculinity in Alain Berliner’s Ma Vie en Rose
Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo and Ryan M. Lescure
Chapter 4. Adolescent Same-Sex Romance and Non-Traditional Masculinity in Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho and Do Começo ao Fim
Hannah Mueller
PART II
Chapter 5. The Rumble of Nostalgia: Francis Ford Coppola’s Vision of Boyhood
Molly Lewis
Chapter 6. Thatcher’s Sons?: 1980s Boyhood in British Cinema, 2005–2010
Andy Pope
Chapter 7. When Jackie Coogan Had His Hair Cut: Masculinity, Maturity, and the Movies in the 1920s
Peter W. Lee
Chapter 8. “I Am Trying” to Perform Like an Ideal Boy: The Construction of Boyhood through Corporal Punishment and Educational Discipline in Taare Zameen Par
Natasha Anand
Chapter 9. Back in Time Yet of His Time: Marty McFly as a 1980s Teenage Boy Role Model
Daniel Smith-Rowsey
