| Reference Type |
chapter
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| Title |
Phantasms: The Dreams and Desires at the Heart of Popular Culture |
| Chapter/Web article title |
Teen Movies: The Forgetting of Wisdom |
| Author(s) | Adrian Martin |
| Town |
Ringwood |
| Publication Date |
00-00-1994 |
| Page Number |
63-69 |
| Comments |
I liked this chapter for two reasons. Firstly, Martin's writing style is humerous, entertaining and straight-forward. Secondly, he does not dismiss the genre as 'mindless' or 'futile entertainment for the masses' which are two stigma's often attached to the 'teenflick' tradition.
The book itself is a good read. It examines a number of cross media phenomena attached to notions of contemporary 'popular culture.' |
| Synopsis |
This chapter is helpful for attaining an overall picture of the 'teenflick' genre. It juxtoposes the local and international (namely American) film scenes. Martin offers some terrific foundational theory concerning notions of semantic and syntactic axes within the 'teenflick' tradition. In doing so, aiming to depict the mise en secne of the genre as well as it's diverse employment of sub-genres. Martin goes to great lenghts to describe the 'Teenflick' genre as reflecting a general 'state of mind,' 'mood' or mode of behaviour as opposed to the exploration of a 'physical age.' Finally, this chapter investigates the 'central motif' which he believes to be 'the termoil of growing up' as integral in all films dealing with 'youth.'
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