An entertaining study of the teen-driven genre of film and television explores consistent themes, including sex and gender relationships, that reveal the hidden life of teenagers and the complexities of American popular culture, as well as their use as an opportunity to promote products and music. O[...]
Modern myths, cheap trash or the objects of fetishist desire? Most people know something about Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Wonder Woman, even if what they know is heavily filtered through film and television versions, rather than the comics in which they first appeared. Yet, even though the con[...]