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Seventeen essays by film scholars from eleven countries consider how young people are represented in films around the world.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Youth Culture Shock (Timothy Shary)
  • Part I. Rebellion and Resistance
    • Chapter 1. American Juvenile Delinquency Movies and the European Censors: The Cross-Cultural Reception and Censorship of The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, and Rebel Without a Cause (Daniel Biltereyst)
    • Chapter 2. The Imported Rebellion: Criminal Guys and Consumerist Girls in Postwar Germany and Austria (Alexandra Seibel)
    • Chapter 3. Rebels with a Cause: Children versus the Military Industrial Complex (Mick Broderick)
  • Part II. Politics and Style
    • Chapter 4. Chinese "Youth Problem" Films in the 1980s: The Apolitics of Rebellion (Xuelin Zhou)
    • Chapter 5. The Age of Transition: Angels and Blockers in Recent Eastern and Central European Films (Anikó Imre)
    • Chapter 6. The Sound of the South Bronx: Youth Culture, Genre, and Performance in Charlie Ahearn's Wild Style (Kimberley Bercov Monteyne)
  • Part III. Youth and Inner-National Conflict
    • Chapter 7. Out of Depth: The Politics of Disaffected Youth and Contemporary Latin American Cinema (Laura Podalsky)
    • Chapter 8. Birds That Cannot Fly: Childhood and Youth in City of God (Sonia Cristina Lino)
    • Chapter 9. Portraying Muslim Youth in Egypt and India: "Worship None but Allah and Be Dutiful and Good to Parents" (Claudia Preckel)
    • Chapter 10. Projecting a Bridge for Youth: Islamic "Enlightenment" versus Westernization in Turkish Cinema (Savas Arslan)
  • Part IV. Narrating Gender and Difference
    • Chapter 11. Narrating the Feminine Nation: The Coming-of-Age Girl in Contemporary New Zealand Cinema (Mary M. Wiles)
    • Chapter 12. Gender, Race, Feminism, and the International Girl Hero: The Unremarkable U.S. Popular Press Reception of Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider (Sarah Projansky)
    • Chapter 13. Pachyderm's Progress (Murray Pomerance)
    • Chapter 14. Boys Will Be Men: Teen Masculinities in Recent Spanish Cinema (Santiago Fouz-Hernández)
  • Part V. Coming-of-Age Queer
    • Chapter 15. Girls Looking at Girls Looking for Girls: The Visual Pleasures and Social Empowerment of Queer Teen Romance Flicks (Susan Driver)
    • Chapter 16. Youth, Sexuality, and the Nation: Beautiful Thing and Show Me Love (Scott Henderson)
    • Chapter 17. Different from the Other(s): German Youth and the Threat of Homosexual Seduction (Stephen Tropiano)
  • Appendix A: Filmography of Global Youth Films by Nation
  • Appendix B: Filmography of Global Youth Films by Theme
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

Youth Culture in Global Cinema

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/2006
      ISBN13: 9780292714144, 978-0292714144
      ISBN10: 0292714149

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Seventeen essays by film scholars from eleven countries consider how young people are represented in films around the world.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction: Youth Culture Shock (Timothy Shary)
      • Part I. Rebellion and Resistance
        • Chapter 1. American Juvenile Delinquency Movies and the European Censors: The Cross-Cultural Reception and Censorship of The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, and Rebel Without a Cause (Daniel Biltereyst)
        • Chapter 2. The Imported Rebellion: Criminal Guys and Consumerist Girls in Postwar Germany and Austria (Alexandra Seibel)
        • Chapter 3. Rebels with a Cause: Children versus the Military Industrial Complex (Mick Broderick)
      • Part II. Politics and Style
        • Chapter 4. Chinese "Youth Problem" Films in the 1980s: The Apolitics of Rebellion (Xuelin Zhou)
        • Chapter 5. The Age of Transition: Angels and Blockers in Recent Eastern and Central European Films (Anikó Imre)
        • Chapter 6. The Sound of the South Bronx: Youth Culture, Genre, and Performance in Charlie Ahearn's Wild Style (Kimberley Bercov Monteyne)
      • Part III. Youth and Inner-National Conflict
        • Chapter 7. Out of Depth: The Politics of Disaffected Youth and Contemporary Latin American Cinema (Laura Podalsky)
        • Chapter 8. Birds That Cannot Fly: Childhood and Youth in City of God (Sonia Cristina Lino)
        • Chapter 9. Portraying Muslim Youth in Egypt and India: "Worship None but Allah and Be Dutiful and Good to Parents" (Claudia Preckel)
        • Chapter 10. Projecting a Bridge for Youth: Islamic "Enlightenment" versus Westernization in Turkish Cinema (Savas Arslan)
      • Part IV. Narrating Gender and Difference
        • Chapter 11. Narrating the Feminine Nation: The Coming-of-Age Girl in Contemporary New Zealand Cinema (Mary M. Wiles)
        • Chapter 12. Gender, Race, Feminism, and the International Girl Hero: The Unremarkable U.S. Popular Press Reception of Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider (Sarah Projansky)
        • Chapter 13. Pachyderm's Progress (Murray Pomerance)
        • Chapter 14. Boys Will Be Men: Teen Masculinities in Recent Spanish Cinema (Santiago Fouz-Hernández)
      • Part V. Coming-of-Age Queer
        • Chapter 15. Girls Looking at Girls Looking for Girls: The Visual Pleasures and Social Empowerment of Queer Teen Romance Flicks (Susan Driver)
        • Chapter 16. Youth, Sexuality, and the Nation: Beautiful Thing and Show Me Love (Scott Henderson)
        • Chapter 17. Different from the Other(s): German Youth and the Threat of Homosexual Seduction (Stephen Tropiano)
      • Appendix A: Filmography of Global Youth Films by Nation
      • Appendix B: Filmography of Global Youth Films by Theme
      • Bibliography
      • Contributors
      • Index

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