“Does Barry Manilow Know You Raid His Wardrobe?”:
Themes of Authority and Rebellion
In American Movies About High School
Themes of Authority and Rebellion
In American Movies About High School
Introduction – Lots of Whys and a Few Disclaimers
Vignette: Frederick Wiseman’s High School
The Teen Film Comes of Age – How The Breakfast Club Established a Genre
With Friends Like These – Authority and Rebellion Between Peers
“When You Grow Up Your Heart Dies” – Parents, Teachers, Principals and Other Full-Grown Bores
Truancy, Delinquency, and Dysfunction – Ferris Bueller and the Death of the Grownup
Over Your Dead Body – On Making Your Life Your Own
Vignette: Gus Van Sant’s Elephant and how today’s high school movies are missing the boat (aren’t school shootings the teen suicides of today?) Also: United States of Leland
Epilogue #1: From Porky’s to Superbad – The Present State of High School Movies, and the… um, Rise of the Teen Sex Comedy
Epilogue #2: Thumbsuckers, Chumscrubbers, and Bricks – The Proper Heirs to the High School Movie Legacy
2 comments:
I really like this chapter list. Especially "When you Grow up your heart dies." I'm a bit unclear about your "vignettes" and how they'll work... I LOVE the epiloque on Porky's to Superbad, though I'm almost convinced that alone could be a thesis topic. Have you found much research in that vein?
I'm thinking now that the last two epilogues will probably just be one chapter: like a "now playing: the current state of the high school movie". Something like that. I don't want to write a chapter about "Superbad", and I don't even want to see "Porky's". I've made it this far without it. I did like "Superbad", though.
The "vignettes" will just be really short chapters. Maybe a little open-ended, like just a thought to help the flow from one bigger idea to the next.
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