Youth culture in global cinema edited by Timothy Shary and Alexandra Se

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-329) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [287]-312.

Introduction : youth culture shock / Timothy Shary -- Ch. 1. American juvenile delinquency movies and the European censors : the cross-cultural reception and censorship of the wild one, blackboard jungle, and rebel without a cause / Daniel Biltereyst -- Ch. 2. The imported rebellion : criminal guys and consumerist girls in postwar Germany and Austria / Alexandra Seibel -- Ch. 3. Rebels with a cause : children versus the military industrial complex / Mick Broderick -- Ch. 4. Chinese "youth problem" films in the 1980s : the apolitics of rebellion / Xuelin Zhou -- Ch. 5. The age of transition : angels and blockers in recent Eastern and Central European films / Aniko Imre -- Ch. 6. The sound of the South Bronx : youth culture, genre, and performance in Charlie Ahearn's Wild Style / Kimberley Bercov Monteyne -- Ch. 7. Out of depth : the politics of disaffected youth and contemporary Latin American cinema / Laura Podalsky -- Ch. 8. Birds that cannot fly : childhood and youth in city of God / Sonia Cristina Lino -- Ch. 9. Portraying Muslim youth in Egypt and India : "worship none but Allah and be dutiful and good to parents" / Claudia Preckel -- Ch. 10. Projecting a bridge for youth : Islamic "enlightenment" versus westernization in Turkish cinema / Savas Arslan -- Ch. 11. Narrating the feminine nation : the coming-of-age girl in contemporary New Zealand cinema / Mary M. Wiles -- Ch. 12. Gender, race, feminism, and the international girl hero : the unremarkable U.S. popular press reception of Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider / Sarah Projansky -- Ch. 13. Pachyderm's progress / Murray Pomerance -- Ch. 14. Boys will be men : teen masculinities in recent Spanish cinema / Santiago Fouz-Hernandez -- Ch. 15. Girls looking at girls looking for girls : the visual pleasures and social empowerment of Queer Teen romance flicks / Susan Driver -- Ch. 16. Youth, sexuality, and the nation : beautiful thing and show me love / Scott Henderson -- Ch. 17. Different from the other(s) : German youth and the threat of homosexual seduction / Stephen Tropiano -- App. A. Filmography of global youth films by nation -- App. B. Filmography of global youth films by theme.