Tim McNelis

US Youth Films and Popular Music (eBook, ePUB)

Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317367390
• Artikelnr.: 48210870

Autorenporträt

Tim McNelis is University Teacher in the Communication and Media Department at the University of Liverpool, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Youth Films, Identity, and Musical Agency
Part I: She's a Rebel?: Girls, Guitars, and Agency
Introduction
1. The Girl Can't Have It: Restricted Musical Agency in 10 Things I Hate
About You and Love Don't Cost a Thing
2. Queer Agency and Reappropriation of the "Technophallus" in All Over Me
3. Silent Punk and Audible Folk: Musical Sleight-of-Hand in Juno
Part II: Listening to the Other: Cultural Borrowing and Critical Reflection
Introduction
4. Consumption, Authenticity, and Identity Experimentation in Ghost World
5. "I didn't move to Bosnia": Critical Cultural Immersion in Save the Last
Dance
6. Cheerleaders, Bullies, and Nerds: Intersections of White Stereotypes and
Black Music in Bring it On, Mean Creek, and Napoleon Dynamite
Part III: Unheard Ethnicities: Musical Construction of Ethnic Identity and
Agency
Introduction
7. 'Old World' Ethnicity, Hybrid Identity, and 'New World' Agency in Real
Women Have Curves
8. "Neighbourhood is sure changing, isn't it?": Evolving Traditions and
Complex Identities in Quinceañera
9. Reimagining the All-American Teenager: Inaudible Ethnicity and Agency
from the Margins in Better Luck Tomorrow
Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Film Music to Identity and Agency