FYS 1009 - Screening Teens/Scripting Identity

Hours: 3
“All we are not stares back at what we are.” - W.H. Auden. Contemporary teen film - films that take adolescence and adolescents seriously - and the identity scripts that “stare back” at us. Teen cinema’s depictions of what we are, and what we aren’t, as we come of age. How movies document the “identity assemblages” of youth, gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, ability, etc. that are written on teen cinematic bodies. How film dramatizes the realities of a twenty-first-century adolescence: sex, drugs, love, rage, violence, poverty, alienation, rebellion, etc. Screening films, such as: The Breakfast Club, Heathers, Thirteen, Elephant, Almost Famous, Juno, Pariah, and Winter’s Bone. Reading relevant theory and criticism.

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FYS 1009 - Screening Teens/Scripting Identity