FYS 1009 - Screening Teens/Scripting Identity

Hours: 4
“All we are not stares back at what we are.” - W.H. Auden. This class will dive into contemporary teen film - films that take adolescence and adolescents seriously – and consider the identity scripts that “stare back” at us. It will think teen cinema’s depictions of what we are, and what we aren’t, as we come of age. It will wrestle with how movies document the “identity assemblages” - youth, gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, ability, etc. - that are written on teen cinematic bodies. And how film dramatizes the realities of a twenty-first-century adolescence: sex, drugs, love, rage, violence, poverty, alienation, rebellion, etc. We will screen films like: The Breakfast Club, Heathers, Thirteen, Elephant, Almost Famous, Juno, Pariah, and a Winter’s Bone. And we will read relevant theory and criticism. Students interested in film studies, gender and sexuality studies, class and race studies, and youth studies will really dig this class.

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FYS 1009 - Screening Teens/Scripting Identity