Consent Culture and Teen Films

Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies

Michele Meek (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2023
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06573-5 (ISBN)

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Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as irrelevant with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and tricking girls into sex. While contemporary movies now routinely prioritize consent, ensuring date rape is no longer a joke and girls' desires are celebrated, sexual consent remains a problematic and often elusive ideal in teen films.

In Consent Culture and Teen Films, Michele Meek traces the history of adolescent sexuality in US cinema and examines how several films from the 2000s, including Blockers, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, The Kissing Booth, and Alex Strangelove, take consent into account. Yet, at the same time, Meek reveals that teen films expose how affirmative consent ("yes means yes") does not protect youth from unwanted and unpleasant sexual encounters. By highlighting ambiguous sexual interactions in teen films—such as girls' failure to obtain consent from boys, queer teens subjected to conversion therapy camps, and youth manipulated into sexual relationships with adults—Meek unravels some of consent's intricacies rather than relying on oversimplification.

By exposing affirmative consent in teen films as gendered, heteronormative, and cis-centered, Consent Culture and Teen Films suggests we must continue building a more inclusive consent framework that normalizes youth sexual desire and agency with all its complexities and ambivalences.

Michele Meek is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Bridgewater State University. She is editor of Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos and serves on the editorial board for Short Film Studies.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Regulating Adolescent Sexuality in U.S. Cinema: From Censorship to Child Pornography Laws
2. Flipping the Heterosexual Script and Race-Based Sexual Stereotypes in Teen Comedies of the 2010s and 2020s
3. Queering Consent: Navigating Performative and Subjective Consent in Queer Teen Films
4. "I Was Not Lolita": Child Sexual Abuse and Children's Agency in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Tale
5. The (In)Visibility of Trans Teens: 3 Generations, Adam, and Boy Meets Girl
Conclusion: Adolescent Sexuality and the Adult Imagination
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2023
Zusatzinfo	10 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-253-06573-9 / 0253065739
ISBN-13	978-0-253-06573-5 / 9780253065735
Zustand	Neuware