Youth on Screen : Representing Young People in Film and Television (Paperback)

Contents


Acknowledgments


1. Introduction

2. Troubling teenagers: how movies constructed the juvenile delinquent 

3. Dreamboats, boybands and the perils of showbiz: the rise and fall of the pop film

4. Reeling in the years: retrospect and nostalgia in movies about youth

5. Gender trouble: cinema and the mystery of adolescent girlhood

6. This is England: growing up in Thatcher’s Britain

7. Skins and the impossibility of youth television

8. Conclusion: histories and futures


Further reading

TV and filmography

Notes

Bibliography