Queering teen culture
Subtitle: all-American boys and same-sex desire in film and television
By: Jeffery P. Dennis.
Publisher: Harrington Park Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781560233480; 9781560233497
Subjects: Teenage boys in motion pictures.; Teenage boys on television.; Homosexuality and motion pictures.; Homosexuality and television.
Description: "Is the overwhelming boy-meets-girl content of popular teen movies, music, books, and TV just a cover for an undercurrent of same-sex desire? From the 1950s to the present, popular culture has involved teenage boys falling for, longing over, dreaming about, singing to, and fighting over, teenage girls. But Queering Teen Culture analyzes more than 200 movies and TV shows to uncover who Frankie Avalon's character was really in love with in those beach movies and why Leif Garrett became a teen idol in the 1970s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Devil on wheels: the rise of teen culture; title: Father knows best: learning girl-craziness; title: Sal Mineo and friends: the juvenile; title: Teenage zombies from outer space; title: Heartbreak Hotel: the teen idols; title: How to stuff a wild bikini: the beach movies; title: Easy rider: the love generation; title: American graffiti: 1950's nostalgia; title: Real men and psycho-slashers; title: The brat pack: teen nerds and operators; title: Teencoms and teensoaps.