2010-2011 Academic Catalog

Jul 02, 2025

2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SCRN 230 - Images of Youth

This course examines the American youth film as a genre, one that contains certain images of its intended audience - teenagers - which reveal cultural attitudes toward adolescence as well as teens’ fantasies about themselves. In some cases these images are stereotypical or extreme, misrepresenting the diverse range of teens who see these films, but in many instances these films uphold teenagers’ ambitions, offering empowering and sympathetic portraits of the growing-up process. The course becomes an exploration of how a particular media industry, in this case Hollywood cinema, represents a certain population through developing, refining and upholding generic conventions in depictions of that population.

Cross Listed: COMM 235

Instructor: Staff

When Offered: Offered every other year

Faculty: Beth Gale, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of French