New American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film

by Barbara Jane Brickman

Book Overview

Taking a closer look at teen film in the 1970s, New American Teenagers uncovers previously marginalized voices that rework the classically male, heterosexual American teenage story. While their parents' era defined the American teenager with the romantic male figure of James Dean, this generation of adolescents offers a dramatically altered picture of transformed gender dynamics, fluid and queered sexuality, and a chilling disregard for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628922788
• ISBN13: 9781628922783
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"