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Author McNelis, Tim

Title US Youth Films and Popular Music : Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (199 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Routledge advances in film studies
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Youth Films, Identity, and Musical Agency; PART I: She's a Rebel? Girls, Guitars, and Agency; 1 The Girl Can't Have It: Restricted Musical Agency in 10 Things I Hate About You and Love Don't Cost a Thing; 2 Queer Agency and the Reappropriation of the "Technophallus" in All Over Me; 3 Silent Punk and Audible Folk: Musical Sleight-of-Hand in Juno; PART II: Listening to the Other: Cultural Borrowing and Critical Reflection
4 Consumption, Authenticity, and Identity Experimentation in Ghost World5 "I didn't move to Bosnia": Critical Cultural Immersion in Save the Last Dance; 6 Cheerleaders, Bullies, and Nerds: Intersections of White Stereotypes and Black Music in Bring It On, Mean Creek, and Napoleon Dynamite; PART III: Unheard Ethnicities: Musical Construction of Ethnic Identity and Agency; 7 'Old World' Ethnicity, Hybrid Identity, and 'New World' Agency in Real Women Have Curves; 8 "Neighbourhood is sure changing, isn't it?": Evolving Traditions and Complex Identities in QuinceaƱera
9 Reimagining the All-American Teenager: Inaudible Ethnicity and Agency from the Margins in Better Luck TomorrowConclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Film Music to Identity and Agency; Index
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Subject Teen films -- United States -- History and criticism
Youth in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and music.
Music theory.
Motion pictures and music
Music theory
Teen films
Youth in motion pictures
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317367390
1317367391