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Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural figures of the fantastic--aliens, ghosts, vampires, demons, and more. Beginning in the 1980s with Poltergeist and E.T. (both 1982) and a cycle of films made by Amblin Entertainment, the suburban fantastic established itself as a popular commercial model combining coming-of-age melodramas with elements drawn from science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The films that exemplify the subgenre generally focus on a young male protagonist who, at the outset, chafes at his stifling suburban milieu, wherein power is invested in whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality. A fantastic occurrence intervenes - the arrival of an alien, a ghost, or some other magical or otherworldly force - threatening this familiar order, thrusting the young man - at first unwittingly - into the role of defender and upholder of the social order. He is able to rescue the suburban social order, and in doing so normalizes (for himself and for the primarily white, male, adolescent audience) its values. This study discusses some of the key instances of this subgenre, such as Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Jumanji (1995), and Small Soldiers (1998), as well as its more recent resurgence in Stranger Things (2016-) and IT (2017). Exploring the importance of suburbia as a setting and the questionable ideological blindness of its heroes, this book reveals these underappreciated Hollywood films as the primary cinematic representation of late-twentieth-century American childhood.
Fantasy films --- Coming-of-age films. --- Films fantastiques --- History --- Histoire
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"Alfred ist der jüngste Nachfahre der von Ärmels, doch die glanzvollen Zeiten der Familie sind vorbei. Neben seiner umschwärmten, aber abgedrehten Mutter, seinem genialen Bruder und seinem kauzigen Vater fühlt er sich wie eine Karikatur. Trotzdem hat er es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, seine alteingesessene Familie zu neuem Ruhm zu führen. Ein Held möchte er werden. Dazu hat er verschiedene Möglichkeiten: Er könnte, wie sein Vorbild und Namensvetter, vierzig Franzosen erschlagen, einen Gesangswettbewerb gewinnen oder zusammen mit Ruth ein Hotel aufmachen, denn ja, die Liebe siegt immer! Doch ist Alfred wirklich zum Helden geboren?" -- Dust jacket
Bildungsromans --- Apprenticeship novels --- Bildungsroman --- Bildungsromane --- Coming of age --- Coming-of-age novels --- Entwicklungsromane --- Erziehungsromane --- Fiction --- German literature --- Bildungsromans.
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Bildungsromans. --- Bildungsromans --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- Bildungsroman --- Apprenticeship novels --- Bildungsromane --- Coming of age --- Coming-of-age novels --- Entwicklungsromane --- Erziehungsromane --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism
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Abseits des Blicks der Erwachsenen und auf Augenhöhe des Heranwachsenden - damit sind François Truffaut und im Anschluss Louis Malle wegweisend für ein bis heute zentrales Thema des französischen Autorenkinos: die Adoleszenz. Anhand der Filme beider Regisseure werden die filmgeschichtliche Entwicklung sowie die zentralen ästhetischen Verfahren dieses bisher kaum beachteten Schlüsselthemas des cinéma d'auteur sinnfällig. So beleuchtet die Arbeit insbesondere die diskursbegründende Rolle von Truffauts Debüt für eine moderne Darstellung Heranwachsender. Zugleich erarbeitet die Autorin eine "Topologie der Adoleszenz": Räumliche Modellierungen in den Filmen werden hierbei einerseits auf die narrative Tradition des Entwicklungsromans sowie andererseits auf die seit dem 19. Jahrhundert bestehende "Anormalisierung" dieser Altersphase zurückbezogen.
Initiation --- Chronotopos --- Heterotopie --- französischer Autorenfilm --- Nouvelle Vague --- Coming-of-Age-Film --- initiation --- chronotope --- heterotopia --- auteur film --- Nouvelle Vague film --- coming-of-age-film
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"The "Introduction" chapter of Generation Disaster: Coming of Age Post-9/11 describes the book's premise: Current emerging adults (ages 18 to 29) have faced an unprecedented level of cumulative stressors throughout their lives, including the post-9/11 wars, school shootings and other disasters, climate change, and the pandemic. These threats are compounded by societal factors like a struggling economy, political divisiveness, and the impact of social media. The chapter outlines the book's methodology, and presents the core questions that will be addressed about the developmental impact of growing up in such a complex world, including how the many stressors they face will shape the cohort as they move through emerging adult and beyond"--
Coming of age --- Disasters --- Young adults --- Generation Y --- Generation Z --- United States
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"Cet ouvrage est le fruit de recherches anthropologiques sur l'éducation menées entre 1990 et 2005 en pays touareg, notamment auprès des Kel Adagh dont le territoire est rattaché au Mali depuis 1960. Chez les nomades, la construction sociale et symbolique du genre est décrite à travers les formes d'apprentissage des représentations sociales et culturelles relatives au fonctionnement du corps. Les émotions produites par la puberté et l'entrée en sexualité sont accompagnées d'explications didactiques et de l'utilisation d'une métaphore thermique, empruntée au système thérapeutique. Les fractures politiques et économiques que vivent les Touaregs depuis plusieurs décennies ont précipité l'émergence de nouvelles catégories sociales dans les villes et les villages. Une étude comparative met en relief l'introduction de nouvelles conceptions dans cette société qui a vu une partie de sa jeunesse s'exiler sans avoir achevé son éducation. La scolarisation, le séjour dans des pays voisins à forte domination masculine, l'entrée dans un islam radical, ont freiné l'acquisition des repères qui permettent à l'individu de devenir une personne reconnue par tous. Ici sont exposées les blessures vécues par des adolescents brisés. L'enfance interrompue trop tôt, l'absence d'accompagnement dans le grandissement de l'être, induisent des constructions personnelles bouleversées. Les perceptions sur l'enfance, sur les techniques du corps, sur les sentiments tels la compassion et l'amour, recueillies dans l'intimité des tentes et des maisons touarègues grâce à de longues enquêtes par observation et entretien montrent qu'une éducation sans violence a garanti le bien-être de plusieurs générations d'hommes et de femmes."--
Tuaregs --- Coming of age --- Tuaregs --- Tuaregs --- Social life and customs. --- Education --- Marriage customs and rites
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"A coming-of-age memoir, using inventive essay forms, about the nature of belonging, memory, and place"--Provided by the publisher.
Teenage girls --- Coming of age --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Mahler, Kristine Langley --- Childhood and youth. --- North Carolina
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Charting production, distribution, censorship, and reception, this book examines Y Tu Mamá También in its presentation as a journey of self-discoveries.Three young adults enjoy a road trip together in search of a legendary beach. Behind their stories are mythologies of youth, a network of ideas in the film that reflects life outside the theaters. The deceptively complex film leaves the characters and its viewers with, instead of oversimplified and hollow answers, provocative questions and existential concerns. Made independently in Mexico, the film crosses over transnational issues, global markets, and mainstream and alternative aesthetics. It transforms road movie and youth film genres and shows a ‘musical, magical’ Mexico to the world. This book synthesizes several approaches in order to extensively examine Y Tu Mamá También. Covering the film’s production history, its distribution and censorship, and larger industrial, political, and cultural contexts, this book analyzes the too-often overlooked aspects of youthful sexuality alongside figurations of maturity, rites of passage, and covenants—made, broken, and remade—that not only inform representations of identity but also complicate the processes of identity formation themselves.
Coming-of-age films --- History and criticism --- Y tu mamá también (Motion picture)
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Generation Y --- Generation Y --- Coming of age --- Educational attainment --- Education --- Employment
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Nature in motion pictures --- Coming-of-age films --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.