Queering Teen Culture : All-American Boys and Same-Sex Desire in Film and Television

ISBN-13: 9781560233497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 221 str.

Jeffery P. Dennis

Opis

Why did Fonzie hang around with all those high school boys? Is the overwhelming boy-meets-girl content of popular teen movies, music, books, and TV just a cover for an undercurrent of same-sex desire? From the 1950s to the present, popular culture has involved teenage boys falling for, longing over, dreaming about, singing to, and fighting over, teenage girls. But Queering Teen Culture analyzes more than 200 movies and TV shows to uncover who Frankie Avalon's character was really in love with in those beach movies and why Leif Garrett became a teen idol in the 1970s. In Top 40 songs, teen magazines, movies, TV soap operas and sitcoms, teenagers are defined by their pubescent discovery of the opposite sex, universally and without exception. Queering Teen Culture looks beyond the litany to find out when adults became so insistent about teenage sexual desire and why and finds evidence of same-sex desire, romantic interactions, and identities that, according to the dominant ideology, do not and cannot exist. This provocative book examines the careers of male performers whose teenage roles made them famous (including Ricky Nelson, Pat Boone, Fabian, and James Darren) and discusses examples of lesbian desire (including I Love Lucy and Laverne and Shirley). Queering Teen Culture examines:

Spis treści

• Preface
  
• Author’s Note
  
• About the Author
  
• Chapter 1. Devil on Wheels: The Rise of Teen Culture
  
• The Adolescent
  
• The Teenager
  
• The Heterosexual Teenager
  
• Chapter 2. Father Knows Best: Learning Girl-Craziness on TV
  
• Ricky Nelson
  
• Billy Gray
  
• Jerry Mathers
  
• Dwayne Hickman
  
• Chapter 3. Sal Mineo and Friends: The Juvenile Delinquent Films
  
• Juvenile Delinquents
  
• Juvenile Delinquency Heats Up
  
• Chapter 4. Teenage Zombies from Outer Space: Monster Movies
  
• Teenage Werewolf
  
• Teenage Frankenstein
  
• The Monster Mash
  
• The End of the Monster Mash
  
• Chapter 5. Heartbreak Hotel: The Teen Idols
  
• Teenage Boys in Love
  
• Teen Idols on Screen
  
• Chapter 6. How to Stuff a Wild Bikini: The Beach Movies
  
• Beach Movie Regulars
  
• The Last of the Beach Movies
  
• Chapter 7. Easy Rider: The Love Generation
  
• The Biker-Hippies
  
• Easy Rider
  
• The Clean-Cut Boys
  
• Teen Idols
  
• Chapter 8. American Graffiti: 1950’s Nostalgia and Teenage Androgyny
  
• Teen Dreams
  
• The 1950s Craze
  
• The Gay 1950s
  
• Chapter 9. Real Men and Psycho-Slashers
  
• Teen Idols
  
• Teen Gore
  
• Chapter 10. The Brat Pack: Teen Nerds and Operators
  
• Buddy Dramas
  
• Teen Nerds
  
• Teen Operators
  
• Chapter 11. Teencoms and Teensoaps
  
• The Teencom
  
• The Teensoap
  
• The Real World
  
• The Incredible Shrinking Teenager
  
• Cruel Intentions
  
• Notes
  
• Index
  

O autorze

Dennis, Jeffery P