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Dear all,

 

If you at a loose end in London on November 14th, you may be interested to attend the launch of my new monograph Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie, published by Edinburgh University Press.

 

The event is free and includes wine. It will be held at IAS Common Ground, Ground Floor, South Wing at University College London 6-8pm. If you would like to attend, please register at the following link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/rethinking-the-hollywood-teen-movie-gender-genre-and-identity-by-frances-smith

 

Please see below for further information about the book:

 

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie by Dr Frances Smith (Writing Lab, UCL) is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly popular, yet often overlooked, film genre. Reconsidering tropes such as the male juvenile delinquent figure, the makeover and the teen vampire, the book uses a series of detailed case studies of key films like Rebel Without a Cause, Grease, Heathers and Twilight to explore the genre’s relation to key critical concepts of intersectionality, postfeminism and the posthuman, and provides an innovative overview of the Hollywood teen movie and its construction of teen identity.

 

"Smith’s work here is distinctively knowledgeable, and it will be highly valued among the evolving studies of youth cinema. The genre needs some rethinking, and Smith delivers in her analysis with cogent insights, solid research, and significant aesthetic perspectives that other surveys have elided."

- Timothy Shary, author of Generation Multiplex (2002; 2014) and Teen Movies (2005)

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-rethinking-the-hollywood-teen-movie.html

 

All welcome. Please register here.

 

I hope to see some of you there

 

Best,

 

Frances

 

 

 

 

Dr Frances Smith FHEA

Writing Lab Convenor

 

Room 205

50 Gordon Square

University College London

London WC1H 0PQ

 

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