Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as
irrelevant, with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and
tricking girls into sex. While contemporary movies now routinely
prioritize consent, ensure date rape is no longer a joke, and
celebrate girls' desires, sexual consent remains a problematic and
often elusive ideal in teen films.
In _Consent Culture and Teen Films,_ Michele Meek traces the history
of adolescent sexuality in US cinema and examines how several films
from the 2000s, including _Blockers_,_ To All the Boys I've Loved
Before_, _The Kissing Booth_, and _Alex Strangelove_, take consent
into account. Yet, at the same time, Meek reveals that teen films
expose how affirmative consent ("yes means yes") fails to protect
youth from unwanted and unpleasant sexual encounters. By highlighting
ambiguous sexual interactions in teen films—such as girls' failure
to obtain consent from boys, queer teens subjected to conversion
therapy camps, and youth manipulated into sexual relationships with
adults—Meek unravels some of consent's intricacies rather than
relying on oversimplification.
By exposing affirmative consent in teen films as gendered,
heteronormative, and cis-centered, _Consent Culture and Teen Films_
suggests we must continue building a more inclusive consent framework
that normalizes youth sexual desire and agency with all its
complexities and ambivalences.
Les mer
Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780253065759
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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