Timothy Shary
Auteur de Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema
A propos de l'auteur
Timothy Shary is the author of Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen, coeditor with Alexandra Seibel of Youth Culture in Global Cinema, and editor of Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema. An independent scholar with a PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts, afficher plus he has been a film studies professor at Clark University and the University of Oklahoma. He lives in Millsboro, Delaware. afficher moins
Œuvres de Timothy Shary
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 70
- Popularité
- #248,179
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 24
Shary, adapting and expanding his PhD thesis, does his job thoroughly and well. This is likely the definitive book on its subject, and – as befits such a book – it’s exhaustively comprehensive, lucidly organized, and clearly written. Anyone seriously interested in the Hollywood teen film, or in Hollywood films of the eighties and nineties, needs a copy of Generation Multiplex.
All that said, it’s not a lot of fun to read. Shary’s grouping of teen films by type, rather than year, facilitates his analysis of shared themes, but kills any sense of narrative momentum and makes it hard for him to connect the films to broader social and cultural trends. His “voice” is so measured, and his analyses so relentlessly sober, that it’s easy to forget how frequently and enthusiastically the genre he’s analyzing embraced anarchy, surrealism, and low comedy. First books by academic authors (mine included) can be like that. When your book starts as a PhD thesis, it’s hard – no matter how much you edit – to get the chill of seriousness out of its bones.
If you’re a reader of a certain age and (just) want a breezy, nostalgic tour of the movies of your youth . . . Generation Multiplex isn’t your book. If, however, you want to know what those movies were telling the world about you and your friends, it most certainly is.… (plus d'informations)