Full Description
Documenting the evolution of teens and media from the 1950s through 2010, this book examines the films, books, television shows, and musical artists that impacted American culture and shaped the "coming of age" experience for each generation.
The teenage years are fraught with drama and emotional ups and downs, coinciding with bewildering new social situations and sexual tension. For these reasons, pop culture and media have repeatedly created entertainment that depicts, celebrates, or lampoons coming of age experiences, through sitcoms like The Wonder Years to the brat pack films of the 1980s to the teen-centered television series of today.
Coming of Age in Popular Culture: Teenagers, Adolescence, and the Art of Growing Up covers a breadth of media presentations of the transition from childhood to adulthood from the 1950s to the year 2010. It explores the ways that adolescence is characterized in pop culture by drawing on these representations, shows how powerful media and entertainment are in establishing societal norms, and considers how American society views and values adolescence. Topics addressed include race relations, gender roles, religion, and sexual identity. Young adult readers will come away with a heightened sense of media literacy through the examination of a topic that inherently interests them.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The 1950s
Decade Overview
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The
American Bandstand
Avalon, Frankie
Blackboard Jungle
Blob, The
Blue Denim
Boone, Pat
Catcher in the Rye, The
Darin, Bobby
Dean, James
Father Knows Best
From Here to Eternity
I Love Lucy
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Invisible Man
Leave It to Beaver
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The
Naked Lunch
On the Road
Presley, Elvis
Public Service Announcements—Sex Education in the 1950s
Summer Place, A
The 1960s
Decade Overview
Addams Family, The
Beach Boys, The
Beatles, The
Bell Jar, The
Beverly Hillbillies, The
Catch-22
Clockwork Orange, A
Doors, The
Dylan, Bob
Explosive Generation, The
Gidget
Group, The
Hendrix, Jimi
Joplin, Janis
Mitchell, Joni
Monkees, The
Outsiders, The
Parent Trap, The
Patty Duke Show, The
Rolling Stones, The
Room 222
Slaughterhouse-Five
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Sir, with Love
Twilight Zone, The
Where the Boys Are
The 1970s
Decade Overview
American Graffiti
Bee Gees, The
Blume, Judy
Breaking Away
Carrie
Charlie's Angels
Chocolate War, The
Clash, The
Cooley High
Devo
Go Ask Alice
Grease
Happy Days
Harrad Experiment, The
Jaws
Led Zeppelin
Little House on the Prairie
National Lampoon's Animal House
Osmonds, The
Queen
Six Million Dollar Man, The
Starsky & Hutch
Summer, Donna
Updike, John
Welcome Back, Kotter
The 1980s
Decade Overview
Back to the Future
Blondie
Boy George
Cosby Show, The
Dirty Dancing
Duran Duran
Facts of Life, The
Family Ties
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Flowers in the Attic
Full House
Gibson, Debbie
Hughes, John, Films of
It
Lauper, Cyndi
Less Than Zero
Madonna
MTV
Revenge of the Nerds
Risky Business
Saved by the Bell
Say Anything . . .
Sweet Valley High
21 Jump Street
Wonder Years, The
The 1990s
Decade Overview
American Pie
Backstreet Boys
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Charmed
Clarissa Explains It All
Clueless
Craft, The
Dazed and Confused
Freaks and Geeks
Grand Theft Auto
Green Day
Harry Potter
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Kids
McDaniel, Lurlene
Morissette, Alanis
Nirvana
Salt-N-Pepa
Scream
7th Heaven
She's All That
Smashing Pumpkins, The
Spice Girls
That '70s Show
The 2000s
Decade Overview
Book Thief, The
Bring It On
Call of Duty
Cyrus, Miley
Divergent
Friday Night Lights
Glee
Gossip Girl
High School Musical
Hunger Games, The
Juno
Lavigne, Avril
Mean Girls
My Chemical Romance
Napoleon Dynamite
One Tree Hill
Pretty Little Liars
Princess Diaries, The
Rihanna
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The
Spears, Britney
Swift, Taylor
Teen Mom
Twilight
Vampire Diaries, The
Index
