CIN270Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Juvenile Delinquency, Youth Detention Center, Class Conflict
11 May 2018
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Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018
CIN270Y1
CLASS 2.2
Woodstock (Documentary)
• Interaction between audience and the performers
• Films are exceptional because they inaugurate the concert film
• Films are meant to give a sense of euphoria
• Also visualizes the communication between audiences and performers
• Hollywood is attempting to reconnect to an audience
Teenagers
• Films of the 1980’s appear to be interested in youth culture
• Are somewhat aimed at adults – as can be seen through the actors who appear to be too
old to be teenagers
• Engage themselves in youth perspectives
• Teen = a period of life between childhood and adulthood
• 1920’s and 1930’s a self-conscious subculture of the young
• 1950’s commercialized, cross-class, transnational youth culture
• disposable income, leisure time, etc.
“Teenpics”
• Hollywood has always made films about people and for people
• Hollywood has always catered to the “juvie trade”, juvenile spectators
• May also be aiming at adults
• But “teenpics” truly emerge with youth culture in the 1950’s
• Audience research age is a crucial factor in characterizing movie audiences
• Hollywood in the 1950’s: targeted this audience and its culture, tastes, concerns
Genres, Cycles, Trends
• Mainstream dramas, social problem films
• Lots of films about irresponsible juveniles
• Emphasis on juvenile delinquency, wildness, crime
Ex. Teenage Crime Wave (1955), Juvenile Jungle (1958)
• More independent producers making exploitation films (sci-fi, horror, fantasy)
• Car films, beatnik films, “clean teenpics” (like beach films)
• Rock ‘n’ Roll and pop films
Since the 1960’s
• Late 1960’s and early 1970’s counter-cultural rebellion
• More college grads than high school grads
Ex. The Graduate
• The boundary between “exploitation” and mainstream dissolves
• Critiques of “parent culture”
• With counterculture’s decline: teenpic production resumes in the late 1970’s and 1980’s
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Document Summary
Genres, cycles, trends: mainstream dramas, social problem films, lots of films about irresponsible juveniles, emphasis on juvenile delinquency, wildness, crime. Teenage crime wave (1955), juvenile jungle (1958: more independent producers making exploitation films (sci-fi, horror, fantasy, car films, beatnik films, clean teenpics (like beach films, rock n" roll and pop films. Since the 1960"s: late 1960"s and early 1970"s counter-cultural rebellion, more college grads than high school grads. The graduate: the boundary between exploitation and mainstream dissolves, critiques of parent culture , with counterculture"s decline: teenpic production resumes in the late 1970"s and 1980"s. To the 1980"s: the 1980"s hollywood reinvests in teenpics, revive and revise past trends, horror, science films, sex comedies, romances, delinquent dramas, high school films, high school films are the key subgenre. The teen film : teens: disaffiliation; new affiliations vs. parent culture, high school films parents and adults are an unwelcome presence, cliques, friendships, romances. Class-clash teen romance: obstacles to teen romance .
