Books in the Cinema and Youth Cultures series

This book provides a critically informed account of the Turkey-born France-based director Deniz Gamze Ergüven's debut film Mustang (2015), which tells the story of five orphaned sisters living with their grandmother and uncle in a remote Turkish village.

This volume examines Mary Poppins as a 1960s film reflecting and invested in its radically changing times, a largely but not unmitigatedly antiestablishment musical resonant with conditions and issues powerfully affecting baby boomers.

Examining the ideas, philosophies, beliefs and fears that are expressed in Greta Gerwig's film, this is a detailed, insightful study of a much-loved, influential and critically-acclaimed film.

The first monograph to examine Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries, this book explains the significance of Salles' film with respect to the specific category of 'youth culture' as a historically and culturally situated concept.

This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to discussing Easy A, the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre.

This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to discussing Easy A, the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre.

Examining one of the earliest films made specifically for young audiences in US cinema, Rock around the Clock explores the exploitation production company that made the film and the ways it represented young people, especially in terms of their association with rock `n¿ roll music and culture.