Youth culture in global cinema

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Авторы: Timothy Shary

Издательство: University of texas p r e s s , Austin

Год: 2007

Кол-во страниц: 364

Формат: jpg

Размер: 4 Мб

Язык: английский

As this book goes to press in the summer of 2005, the latest book in a series about an adolescent wizard,Harry Potter and theHalf-Blood Prince, is being released to a voracious audience of readers both young and old.Harry Potter’s creator, J. K. Rowling, has developed a franchise of stories and subsequent movies that have enchanted many cultural imaginations, and that have provoked some debates on the roles and responsibilities of young people, in fiction and reality. Yet neither Rowling nor her famous character purports to represent all youth.

In creating this anthology, we also knew that we could not represent youth in films from all parts of the world. Furthermore, we knew that the lengthy process of publishing an anthology would preclude us from examining many films that have appeared recently. In dealing with international cinema, especially in the past few years, we faced the dilemma of locating youth films that have not been given adequate exposure, regardless of their significance and their messages.