Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Roz Kaveney, Teen Queens, Popular Science

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Childhood labor no identity between childhood and adulthood. Children were working and smoking childhood didn"t exist. Teen-agers (debuted in print in 1941 issue of popular science monthly) Came from the 20s and 30s in the. It"s a space in which adults are trying to control youth and protect them because they represent the future, and young people are pushing back, trying to create their own world on their own terms. Out of that generation gap and that conflict comes the innovative things that we call youth culture. Teen films as part of the western emergence of youth culture. Teenagers come to be seen as exciting film content and reliable filmgoers. Roz kaveney: teen films has a specific time and place and origin and it"s the. Teen films during this time become more complex. Story of adolsence from a variety of viewpoints and angles. As consumers we can recognize parts of our own selves in these characters.