Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meek's study is revelatory in its understanding of contemporary concerns about sexual consent, ranging from adults' efforts to regulate children's sexual knowledge to teenagers' interests in exploring their sexual identities. The extensive analysis of recent films provides numerous opportunities for reconsidering how the concept of consent is evolving for youth, who are in real life revising fundamental notions of gender, power, and expression. This book may at least provoke more educators and parents to respect how the movies adolescents are watching are often confronting current conditions of youth sexuality in ways that many adult authorities are not."—Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex
"This thoughtful and timely volume demonstrates that teen films have become a key site for negotiating the emergent discourse of consent and adolescent sexual agency. Through astute analyses of recent American films, Meek teases out the complexities and contradictions inherent in the ideal of affirmative consent. Consent Culture and Teen Films is an essential addition to the literature on teen films and on Hollywood's representation of adolescent sexuality."—Kristen Hatch, author of Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Regulating Adolescent Sexuality in U.S. Cinema: From Censorship to Child Pornography Laws
2. Flipping the Heterosexual Script and Race-Based Sexual Stereotypes in Teen Comedies of the 2010s and 2020s
3. Queering Consent: Navigating Performative and Subjective Consent in Queer Teen Films
4. "I Was Not Lolita": Child Sexual Abuse and Children's Agency in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Tale
5. The (In)Visibility of Trans Teens: 3 Generations, Adam, and Boy Meets Girl
Conclusion: Adolescent Sexuality and the Adult Imagination
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
