{"product_id":"9781847888440","title":"Teen Film: A Critical Introduction","description":"What makes a film a teen film? And why, when it represents such powerful\u003cbr\u003e and enduring ideas about youth and adolescence, is teen film usually \u003cbr\u003eviewed as culturally insignificant?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTeen film is usually \u003cbr\u003ediscussed as a representation of the changing American teenager, \u003cbr\u003ehighlighting the institutions of high school and the nuclear family, and\u003cbr\u003e experiments in sexual development and identity formation. But not every\u003cbr\u003e film featuring these components is a teen film and not every teen film \u003cbr\u003eis American. Arguing that teen film is always a story about becoming a \u003cbr\u003ecitizen and a subject, Teen Film\u003cbr\u003e presents a new history of the genre, surveys the existing body of \u003cbr\u003escholarship, and introduces key critical tools for discussing teen film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurveying a wide range of films including The Wild One, Heathers, Akira and Donnie Darko,\u003cbr\u003e the book's central focus is on what kind of adolescence teen film \u003cbr\u003erepresents, and on teen film's capacity to produce new and influential \u003cbr\u003eimages of adolescence.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140244619504,"sku":"9781847888440","price":26.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847888440_p0.jpg?v=1763749476","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847888440","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}