Teenagers and Teenpics : Juvenilization of American Movies by Thomas Doherty ...

Temple University Press,U.S.

Teenagers And Teenpics: Juvenilization Of American Movies\nby Thomas Doherty\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Thomas Doherty\nTitle: Teenagers And Teenpics: Juvenilization Of American Movies\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Film history, theory or criticism\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S.\nPublication year: 2002\nISBN-13: 9781566399463\nISBN-10: 1566399467\nRRP: \u00A326.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nTeenagers and Teenpics tells the story of two signature developments in the 1950s: the decline of the classical Hollywood cinema and the emergence of that strange new creature, the American teenager. Hollywood's discovery of the teenage moviegoer initiated a progressive \""juvenilization\"" of film content that is today the operative reality of the American motion p.