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I would like to thank the different censorship classification boards, including those in Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London, and Paris. 1. Report of the Departmental Committee on Children and the Cinema, Secretary of State, May 1950, London. 2. ''Legion Approves Eight of 15 New Productions,'' Motion Picture Herald, March 12, 1955. 3. W. H. M. ''Rebel Without a Cause. The Tidings, Oct. 28, 1955. 4. BBFC file on The Wild One, Robertson 1989 105 . 5. Watkins BBFC to Ayres MGM , March 24,1955,...
Contributors
Savag Arslan is an assistant professor in the Film and Television Department at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul. His work on various aspects of Turkish cinema has been presented at international conferences in the U.S. and in Italy and published in several books and magazines in Turkey. Among these are studies of the language of film criticism in Turkey, center-periphery differences in melodramas, and remakes and adaptations of Western films such as The Exorcist, Superman, and Zorro. He is also...
Claudia Preckel
Islam embraces many principles and ideas about childhood and Islamic Muslim education, which differ according to historical time period and region Barazanji, 406 . All of these schools of thought aim at shaping children's characters in line with the Islamic worldview. Islamic families are entitled to educate their children in order to allow them to follow the Quran and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. Tradition encourages young people to ''Worship none but Allah alone and be dutiful and...
Islamic Enlightenment versus Westernization in Turkish Cinema savas arslan
mehmet You behave like a young Viennese girl. You are learning western music Bach, Beethoven, and Strauss. Why leyla It is very simple I like Vienna and the Viennese. mehmet But you are not Viennese. You are from Istanbul. You are a Turk. I cannot understand why one would learn somebody else's music without learning one's own. from a conversation in the movie Memleketim Popular Turkish cinema, known as Yegilgam, peaked in the 1960s and 1970s in a complex context it needed to respond not only to...
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1. The Iran-Iraq War was commonly referred to as the Persian Gulf War until the Iraq-Kuwait conflict in 1990-1991, which came to be known as the Second Gulf War, and later simply the Gulf War. The first conflict lasted from September 22,1980, when Iraqi troops invaded Iran, until August 20,1988.The war was caused by disagreements over the border between the two countries. It was also a conflict between the Republic of Iraq, under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, and the Islamic Republic of...
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1. See Sun Lung-kee, Zhongguo wenhua de shengceng jiegou The Deep Structure'' of Chinese Culture Hong Kong Jixianshe, 1983 , 394. 2. See Zhao Zixiang et al., Qingnian wenhua yu shehui bianqian'' Youth Culture and Social Changes , in Shehui kexue zhanxian Social Science Front , no. 4 1988 110. 3. Robert Chapman, Fiction and the Social Pattern,'' in Essays on New Zealand Literature, ed. Wystan Curnow Auckland Heinemann Educational Books, 1973 , 86. 4. This revision was proposed in the Eleventh...
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Couto, Jos Geraldo. ''Cidade de Deus questiona produ o nacional.'' Folha de S o Paulo Folha Ilustrada, Sept. 7, 2002, 6. Critser, Greg. Fat Land How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World. Boston Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Cruz, Clarissa. ''Girl Power Thanks to Box Office Bonanzas like Legally Blonde, Summer Isn't Just for Boys Anymore.'' Entertainment Weekly, July Ii, 2003, 39-40. DaMatta, Roberto. Carnavais, malandros e her is. Rio de Janeiro Zahar,
Establishing An Analogy
We find a striking image of a chicken in a Brazilian movie poster for City of God. The poster alludes to the first sequence of the movie, with its image of The Brazilian movie posterior City of God features a significant image of a large chicken. The Brazilian movie posterior City of God features a significant image of a large chicken. armed teenagers and children above the title and a chicken below, its wings spread, apparently trying to fly. The sentence used as a subtitle calls our attention...
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Sparks, Colin. ''Media Theory after the Fall of European Communism.'' In De-Westernizing Media Studies, ed. James Curran and Myung-Jin Park. London Routledge, 2000, 35-49. Speed, Leslie. ''Tuesday's Gone The Nostalgic Teen Film.'' Journal of Popular Film and Television 26, no. 1,1998 24-36. Sreedhar, K. Santhanam, and Sudhir Saxena Manish. Jihadis in Jammu and Kashmir. New Delhi Sage, 2003. Steakley, James. The Homosexual Emancipation Movement. New York Arno Press, 1975. Stein, Ellin. ''Wild...
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1. Jane Feuer, The Hollywood Musical Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1993 , 124. Feuer, in her discussion of 1980s musicals, writes that the classic model of genre theory is problematic for understanding genre within a postmodern context. Classic genre theory, she contends, does not allow for reading against the grain of the text. She critiques Rick Altman's formulation of genre as an inadequate methodology for reconstructionist musicals because it fails to explain how resisting readers...
Filmography Of Global Youth Films By Theme
This filmography consists of 21 common themes within global youth cinema and films that are relevant to those themes. Please note that this list is selective and in many cases subjective since attempting to qualify or quantify such categories as abuse or religion is difficult indeed . Films are only listed here if the editors or contributors knew of their specific themes, and thus many films from Appendix A are not listed, while some films are listed in more than one category.
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A la place du coeur Where the Heart Is 1998 nos amours 1983 nous les petites Anglaises Let's Get Those English Girls 1976 toute vitesse Full Speed 1996 L'Amant The Lover 1992 L'Amour 1990 L'Ann e des m duses Year of the Jellyfish 1984 Les Ann es campagne The Country Years 1992 L'Argent de poche Small Change 1976 Artemisia 1997 Au revoir les enfants Goodbye Children 1987 La Barbare The Savage 1989 Bar des rails Railway Bar 1991 Beau-p re 1981 La Boum The Party 1980 La Boum 2 1982 Br ve travers e...
acknowledgments
We began planning this book in early 2003, knowing that the field needed an anthology on the cinematic image of youth beyond the U.S. context, and we were quite happy that we received so many great proposals. We must first thank those scholars who submitted ideas and essays, especially since we could not publish all of the great work we received. We'd also like to give a special thanks to Murray Pomerance, who not only agreed to contribute an essay to this volume, but who met with us early in...
Of Seawalls And Scaffolding
The following section offers a contrasting view of how youth is being formulated in contemporary Cuba. Whereas in Argentina there has been an explosion of filmmaking activity by younger directors in recent years, in Cuba these types of productions are both less numerous and less visible. This absence is the result of a number of circumstances, among them, the economic difficulties starting in the 1990s that have sharply curtailed ICAIC productions and, perhaps even more important, the...
Teen Masculinities in Recent Spanish Cinema santiaco fouzhernandez
YOUTH AND CHiLDREN iN SPANISH CINEMA Films about youth have been prominent in Spanish cinema of the last three decades. Data suggest that in the early 1990s youth went from media under-representation to overrepresentation and, according to Trenzado Romero, the profession most widely represented by male characters in the Spanish cinema of the 1990s was that of the student, even if the narrative was completely unrelated to the world of education 99-100 .1 Young people between 15 and 29 years of...
The ComingofAge Girl in Contemporary New Zealand Cinema mary m wiles
The storyteller takes what she he tells from experience her his own or that reported by others. And she he in turn makes it the experience of those who are listening to the tale. In every case the storyteller is a wo man who has counsel for her his reader . . . Walter benjamin, ''the storyteller, in Illuminations Filmmaker Vincent Ward remarks, ''Childhood is a common theme in New Zealand writing. Perhaps this is due to the relative newness of the national identity, and 'rites of passage'...
Universality
While one might consider the kind of exoticization and construction of an ahistorical cultural authenticity I describe in the previous section to be the opposite of a claim that the films are ''universal'' how can the films be both about a specific exotic delicious patriarchal culture and about all cultures at all times i.e., universal in fact these two different kinds of representations depend on and support one another. Once a culture is fixed into a static, ahistorical authenticity and...
Angels
In order to characterize a prominent group of East and Central European films about adolescents, I am borrowing the image of angels from ''Gangsters and Angels,'' the Hungarian critic Sandor Turcsanyi's article about Arpad Sopsits' film Torzok Abandoned, 2001 . Turcsanyi argues that representations of innocent, ethereal, vulnerable, often orphaned5 young people are central to understanding Hungarian and, by extension, East and Central European cinemas and cultures. Torzok exemplifies the...
Laura Podalsky
Over the past decade or so, there has been a proliferation of films from a variety of Latin American countries about disaffected youth, among them Rodrigo D No futuro 1990, Colombia , Johnny Cien Pesos 1993, Chile , Madagascar 1994, Cuba , Pizza birra faso 1997, Argentina , Amor vertical 1997, Cuba , and Amores perros 2000, Mexico . Although tales of youthful alienation have been a cinematic staple in many countries since the 1960s, many of these recent Latin American films depart from the...
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Perrine, Toni A. Film and the Nuclear Age Representing Cultural Anxiety. New York Garland, 1997. Pickle, Betsy. ''Young Actress Shines in Elegant Whale Rider. Scripps Howard News Service, June 26, 2003, sec. Entertainment. Pidduck, Julianne. ''After 1980 Margins and Mainstreams. In Now You See It Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film, ed. Richard Dyer and Julianne Pidduck. 2nd ed. London Routledge, 2003, 265-294. Pike, Andrew, and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977. Melbourne Oxford University...
And The Homosexual Seduction Myth
From the late nineteenth century through the late 1960s, sodomy laws in Germany and postwar East and West Germany constructed the male homosexual as a monstrous figure who poses a threat to the patriarchal power of the state and the welfare and morality of its youth. In 1871, the newly formed German state adopted Prussia's anti-sodomy law, which became Paragraph 175 of the Reich Criminal Code. The law declared that an ''unnatural sexual offense, which is committed by two people of the male sex...
Sonia Cristina Lino
In the first sequence of the Brazilian movie City of God 2002 , with pagode1 music in the background, we see slums and a group of people in a party mood getting ready to cook a few chickens. With vibrant images and rhythm, the audience is introduced to this situation from the perspective of one of the chickens that is waiting to be cooked. Held by the foot, the chicken watches as another chicken is killed and plucked. The visible anxiety of the animal is underlined by the fast editing and the...
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Dannecker, Martin. Theories of Homosexuality, trans. David Fernbach. London Gay Men's Press, I98I. Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York Vintage, I999. Dawtrey, Adam. ''Bollywood Flavor Curries Brit Favor Pix with Indian Themes Add Spice at Blighty Wickets.'' Variety, April 8-I4, 2002, I4. Decharneux, Raymond. ''Le cin ma et la d linquance juvenile.'' Revue de Droit P nal et de Criminologie 4 Jan. I957 747-804. de Haas, Helmuth. ''Wenn ich erst...
The Apolitics of Rebellion xuelin zhou
In February 2004, Chun Shu, a Beijing teenage writer, appeared on the cover of Time Asia. Chun, along with another high school-dropout-turned-writer, Han Han, punk rocker Li Yang, and computer hacker Man Zhou, were described in Time's lead article as the embodiment of disaffected Chinese youth and were labeled linglei, a word used to carry negative connotations of''a disreputable hooligan'' but in the official dictionary defined as ''an alternative lifestyle'' Feb. 2, 2004 . While it is...
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1. See Timothy Shary, Generation Multiplex The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema Austin University of Texas Press, 2002 , 3-11. 2. John Neubauer describes Molnar's novel as one of the first modern stories about teenage gangs. He discusses the novel's thematic continuities with contemporaneous European novels about adolescence and comments on the novel's allegorical critique of grown-up warfare a characteristic feature of East and Central European films about adolescent boy groups....
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Matthews, James D. Censored London Chatto, 1994. M ty s, P ter. ''Fi k a r cs m g tt Boys behind Bars . Filmkult ra. http Accessed on May 9, 2004. McRobbie, Angela. Feminism and Youth Culture. Boston Unwin Hyman, 1991. Mead, Margaret. Culture and Commitment The New Relationships between the Generations in the 1970s. New York Columbia University Press, 1978. Melly, George. Revolt into Style The Pop Arts in the '50s and '60s. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1970. Mercer, John. ''Homosexual...
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1. We employ the terms youth and young adult'' rather interchangeably, and conceive these populations to generally be between the ages of 12 and 20. There are instances where the young characters we study are slightly younger than 12 or older than 20, but are nonetheless dealing with issues related to leaving childhood and becoming an adult. We conceive of adolescence and puberty as covering this range of ages, even though the terms have a wide variety of applications in different contexts and...
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Oro diablo Devil Gold 2000 Sicario 1994 Anders als du und ich The Third Sex 1957 Chinesisches Roulette Chinese Roulette 1976 Christiane F. Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo We Children from Bahnhof Zoo 1981 Die Halbstarken Teenage Wolfpack 1956 Endstation Liebe Last Stop Love 1958 Leidenschaftliche Bl mchen Boarding School 1978 Nordsee ist Mordsee North Sea Is Dead Sea 1976 Schulm dchen-Report Was Eltern nicht f r m glich halten 1970 Schulm dchen-Report 2 Was Eltern den Schlaf raubt 1971 Schulm...
Youth Culture Genre and Performance in Charlie Ahearns Wild Style kimberley
While it is hard to imagine a moment when hip-hop was not predominant in both urban and suburban youth culture, there was a time when it could be termed subcultural. In fact, even before MTV latched on to it as the next big thing, one of the first vehicles for hip-hop's entry into the mainstream in the early '80s was through the musical, in such films as Wild Style 1982 , Beat Street 1984 , and Krush Groove 1985 . Although these films are in fact musicals, film historians have rarely tackled...
The Unremarkable US Popular Press Reception of Bend It Like Beckham and Whale
The fact that U.S. popular culture pays attention to girls is certainly not a new phenomenon nevertheless, I would argue that representations of girls have significantly intensified since the mid-1980s. For example, since as early as 1923, when Time began publishing, girls appeared on the cover of that magazine once per year in most years but, starting in 1986 they appeared several times nearly every year. In the 1990s, new television shows centering on girls included Clarissa Explains It All...
Kimberley Bercov Monteyne
part 111 youth and inner-national conflict 107 chapter 7. Out of Depth The Politics of Disaffected Youth and Contemporary Latin American Cinema 109 laura podalsky chapter 8. Birds That Cannot Fly Childhood and Youth in City of God 131 chapter 9. Portraying Muslim Youth in Egypt and India Worship None but Allah and Be Dutiful and Good to Parents 144 claudiapreckel chapter 10. Projecting a Bridge for Youth Islamic Enlightenment versus Westernization in Turkish Cinema 157
Daniel Biltereyst
In the mid-1950s, the gradual relaxation of the Hollywood Production Code and the growth of independent filmmaking brought to the forefront a whole series of American movies which openly explored taboo-breaking subjects around sexuality, crime, and the use of drugs. One strand of movies causing a heated public controversy dealt with the social problem of juvenile delinquency. Films like The Wild One 1953 , Blackboard Jungle 1955 , and Rebel Without a Cause 1955 directly confronted the issue of...