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High school picture organization Student point of view Acceptance of chaos

Joseph W. Reed. (1989). American Scenarios: The Uses of Film Genre. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. . High school picture organization Student point of view Acceptance of chaos

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High school picture organization Student point of view Acceptance of chaos

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  1. Joseph W. Reed. (1989). American Scenarios: The Uses of Film Genre. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

  2. High school picture organization • Student point of view • Acceptance of chaos • “Teenagers can be repellant humans but they are very appealing animals, and they’re funny.” (pp. 132-133) Even those who attend private school could be the teens in the picture • “I can be (because I have been) victim or failure or nerd; I can be (because I have dreamed it) psychotic killer or avenging angel or Splatter monster.” (p. 133) • “depicts our high school” “we know where everything is” (p. 145) • cafeteria funny while shop not (p. 152)

  3. fears of teens include • Loss of identity • Abandonment • Failure to fit in • Getting caught “screwing” • “all those things we used to worry about all the time instead of just now and again.” (p. 134) High school picture derived from movies not the audience Before it’s development we saw changes in our culture • Pill • Difference in how we viewed authority • Sputnik • Education reforms • Rock music

  4. Plot Conventions American Graffiti (1973) Where are the parents? • Just leaving home • Nowhere to be seen • Idiots • Mad

  5. (Peter Lev. (2000). American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions. Austin, TX: University of TX Press.) • Ron Howard was 18 • Cindy Williams was 25 Plot conventions • Adults absent/ineffective • Short time period • Several characters rather than main/supporting • Back and forth subplots • End titles present outcomes • Nostalgic, mythic

  6. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) • Director may have invented genre when James Dean arrives at new school • Loneliness we all know • Society formed by students in the film Blackboard Jungle (1955) • Adult point of view • Juvenile delinquent picture with adults playing juvenile roles (Sidney Poitier) • Bill Haley & the Comets playing Rock Around the Clock

  7. Splendor in the Grass (1961) • Adult point of view • High school English class • Bad girl • Natalie Wood/Warren Beatty Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) • Anthology rather than a narrative • Shorts • Male Virginity Picture • Female Virginity Picture • Abortion picture • Job frustrations; sexual fantasy (Judge Reinhold) • Maturity and love for absent older man • Wrecking car scene

  8. (Peter Lev. (2000). American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions. Austin, TX: University of TX Press.) • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) • Set in 1982 not a nostalgic look at the past • Teen hangouts • Shopping mall • Video arcade • Fast-food restaurant • Teachers play minor roles

  9. Appeal is the energy and potential • Retro Rock Top 40 changes by time movie released John Hughes’ innovation • Class warfare Cooley High (1975) • All-black high school • Dialogue rhymes in places • (Lev) • Short period of time—a few days • Motown • Real consequences

  10. Reed’s picks • I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) • Carrie (1976) • Lord Love a Duck (1966) • Class of 1984 (1982)

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