Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in Us Movies

by Michele Meek

Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as irrelevant, with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and tricking girls into sex. While contemporary movies now routinely prioritize consent, ensure date rape is no longer a joke, and celebrate girls' desires, sexual consent remains a problematic and often elusive ideal in teen films.

In Consent Culture and Teen Films, Michele Meek traces the history of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253065739
• ISBN13: 9780253065735
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"