Boyhood - A Young Life on Screen

List of contents

Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1: The Child on Screen: Capturing Youth Chapter 2: An Audacious Adventure: Making the Life of Mason Chapter 3: Understanding Boyhood: The Child Becomes a Teenager Chapter 4: Understanding Boyhood: The Teenager Becomes a Man Chapter 5: The Moment of This Boy’s Life

About the author

Timothy Shary has published seven books on the representational politics of age and gender, beginning with Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema (2002; 2014), and most recently Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema (2016) with Nancy McVittie. His work on youth cinema has been published in numerous books and journals since the 1990s, including The Journal of Film and Video, Film Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Boyhood Studies.

Summary

This book traces the development of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood from its audacious concept through its tenacious production to its celebrated reception, placing it within the context of cinematic parables about children to demonstrate its distinctive vision.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Shary, Timothy (University of Oklahoma Shary, Shary Timothy
• Assisted by: Sian Lincoln (Editor of the series), Siân Lincoln (Editor of the series), Yannis Tzioumakis (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138682443
• ISBN: 978-1-138-68244-3
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: Cinema and Youth Cultures; Cinema and Youth Cultures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; USA, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Age groups: adolescents, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Film Theory & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film history, theory or criticism