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Wheeler Winston Dixon (ed.). (2000). Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays. Albany, NY: State University of New Yo

Wheeler Winston Dixon (ed.). (2000). Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Chapter 8 “’Fighting and Violence and Everything, That’s Always Cool’: Teen Films in the 1990s” pp. 125-141.

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Wheeler Winston Dixon (ed.). (2000). Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays. Albany, NY: State University of New Yo

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  1. Wheeler Winston Dixon (ed.). (2000). Film Genre 2000: New Critical Essays. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

  2. Chapter 8 “’Fighting and Violence and Everything, That’s Always Cool’: Teen Films in the 1990s” pp. 125-141

  3. “…more than ever before, teenage audience dominate the global theatrical box office.” (p. 126) • Gen Y is spawn of baby boom • “getting away from mom and dad” (p. 128)

  4. “In the late 1990s, all films have become teen films, simply in order to gain some sort of toehold at the box office. Older stars latch onto younger up-and-coming talents to bolster their careers; at twenty-five, in today’s cinematic landscape, you’ve practically become a character actor, consigned to play parents, cops, teachers, or other marginal (and usually comic) “authority” figures.” (p. 137) • offer “action, escape, violence, drama, the simulacrum of personal involvement without actual presence or risk.” (p. 139) • “the teen films of the 1990s are at once more violent and less innocent, than their predecessors.” (p. 139) • go “for instruction, amusement, and escapism, to hear and see for the first time the fables we adults know by heart.” (p. 140)

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