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Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood explores the important yet often overlooked subject of boys and boyhood in film. This collected volume features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding representations of boyhood in film.
List of contents
Introduction Timothy Shary PART I Chapter 1. Transition, Crisis and Nostalgia: Youth Masculinity and Postfeminism in Contemporary Hollywood, an Analysis of
Superbad Victoria Cann and Erica Horton Chapter 2. The Once and Future King: Negotiating the Survival of Boys in 1990s Cinema
Katie Barnett Chapter 3. Transing Normative Boyhood Masculinity in Alain Berliner's
Ma Vie en Rose Gust A. Yep, Sage E. Russo and Ryan M. Lescure Chapter 4. Adolescent Same-Sex Romance and Non-Traditional Masculinity in
Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho and
Do Começo ao Fim Hannah Mueller PART II Chapter 5. The Rumble of Nostalgia: Francis Ford Coppola's Vision of Boyhood
Molly Lewis Chapter 6. Thatcher's Sons?: 1980s Boyhood in British Cinema, 2005-2010
Andy Pope Chapter 7. When Jackie Coogan Had His Hair Cut: Masculinity, Maturity, and the Movies in the 1920s
Peter W. Lee Chapter 8. "I Am Trying" to Perform Like an Ideal Boy: The Construction of Boyhood through Corporal Punishment and Educational Discipline in
Taare Zameen Par Natasha Anand Chapter 9. Back in Time Yet of His Time: Marty McFly as a 1980s Teenage Boy Role Model
Daniel Smith-Rowsey
About the author
Timothy Shary is the author of numerous books on youth and film, including Boyhood: A Young Life on Screen (Routledge, 2017), and Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2002; revised 2014). He is co-author of Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2016), and his publications have appeared in The Journal of Film and Video, Film Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Boyhood Studies. He teaches at Eastern Florida State College.
Summary
Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding representations of boyhood in film.
