Thomas Doherty: Teenagers and Teenpics

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>The classic book on teenagers and their films, thoroughly revised and expanded<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566399456&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1602_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Teenagers and Teenpics</h1> <H2>The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s</H2> <H2>Revised and Expanded Edition</H2> <h3>Thomas Doherty</h3> <P>cloth 1-56639-945-9 $85.50, May 02, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-946-7 $29.95, May 02, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-59213-787-3 $29.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 288 pp 6x9 30 halftones </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Thomas Doherty is a wonderful film historian, as well as an astute cultural observer and a scholarly live wire. His account of Hollywood youth movies is as sensitive to the craziness of the marketplace as that of the movies themselves-smart, detailed, and near-definitive."</I> <br>&#151<b>J. Hoberman</b>, film critic, <I>The Village Voice</I><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p><I>Teenagers and Teenpics</I> tells the story of two signature developments in the 1950s: the decline of the classical Hollywood cinema and the emergence of that strange new creature, the American teenager. Hollywood's discovery of the teenage moviegoer initiated a progressive "juvenilization" of film content that is today the operative reality of the American motion picture industry. <p>The juvenilization of the American movies is best revealed in the development of the 1950s "teenpic," a picture targeted at teenagers even to the exclusion of their elders. In a wry and readable style, Doherty defines and interprets the various teenpic film types: rock 'n' roll pictures, j.d. films, horror and sci-fi weirdies, and clean teenpics. Individual films are examined both in light of their impact on the motion picture industry and in terms of their important role in validating the emerging teenage subculture. Also included in this edition is an expanded treatment of teenpics since the 1950s, especially the teenpics produced during the age of AIDS. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"Thomas Doherty's </I>Teenagers and Teenpics<I>, a fascinating study of Hollywood's response to the newly discovered youth market in the 1950s, felicitously brings together solid research, sensitive critical analysis, and an engaging writing style. Too long out of print, Doherty's book, which now brings the saga of 'teenpics' up to date, remains an indispensable guide to a significant aspect of American culture."</I> <br>&#151<b>Michael Anderegg</b>, author <I>Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture</I> <p><I>"For an example of real scholarship in the field of cultural studies, one cannot do better than Thomas Doherty's </I>Teenagers and Teenpics<I>&#151an astute introduction to the 'juvenilization,' not just of Hollywood, but of America's post-war pop culture more generally."</I> <br>&#151<b>James Miller</b>, Director of Liberal Studies, New School University, and author of <I>Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977</I> <p><i>"Doherty's combination of business history, social history, and narrative analysis is seamless and compelling, representing one of the heights of film criticism since 1980.</i> <br>&#151<b><a href="http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=290581038557493" target="new">H-Net</a></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Acknowledgments <br>1. American Movies as a Less-than-Mass Medium <br>2. A Commercial History <br>3. The Teenage Marketplace <br>4. Rock 'n' Roll Teenpics <br>5. Dangerous Youth <br>6. The Horror Teenpics <br>7. The Clean Teenpics <br>8. Generation after Generation of Teenpics <br>Notes <br>Selected Filmography <br>Index to Film Titles <br>General Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1602_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Thomas Doherty</b> is Associate Professor of American Studies and Chair of the Film Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is the author of two previous books, including <I>Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934</I>, which was a New York Times Notable Book for 1999.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/cinema.html" TARGET="_top">Cinema Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/history.html" TARGET="_top">History</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/american.html" TARGET="_top">American Studies</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566399456&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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