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- Title
Doing It for the Kids: Rebels and Prom Queens in the Cold War Classroom Film.
- Authors
Ervin-Ward, Anika
- Abstract
The author discusses how adolescent archetypes shown in 1950's and 1960's classroom films displace widespread anxieties during the Cold War into the body of the teenager, but in the process evoking the same dangers they wish to contain. It describes how the 1961 film "The Prom: It's a Pleasure!" contains adolescent female sexuality by reinforcing the notion of femininity as commodity and consumer, while the 1954 film "Gang Boy," calls upon the archetype of the juvenile delinquent to express fears about the disintegration of the nuclear family ideal.
- Subjects
TEENAGERS in motion pictures; ARCHETYPES; PROM: It's a Pleasure!, The (Film); GANG Boy (Film); FEMININITY in motion pictures; JUVENILE delinquency films; MOTION picture industry
- Publication
Colloquy: Text Theory Critique, 2009, Issue 18, p160
- ISSN
1325-9490
- Publication type
Article