US Youth Films and Popular Music Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency [Hardcover]

This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of Hollywood and independent US youth films that have had commercial and/or critical success to illustrate how films draw on specific discourses surrounding popular music genres to convey ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and other aspects of identity. He develops the concept of musical agency, a term he uses to discuss the relationship between film music and character agency, also examining the music characters listen to and discuss, as well as musical performances by the characters themselves

Introduction: Youth Films, Identity, and Musical Agency

Part I: Shes a Rebel?: Girls, Guitars, and Agency

Introduction

1. The Girl Cant Have It: Restricted Musical Agency in 10 Things I Hate About You andLove Dont Cost a Thing

2. Queer Agency and Reappropriation of the Technophallus in All Over Me

3. Silent Punk and Audible Folk: Musical Sleight-of-Hand in Juno

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4. Consumption, Authenticity, and Identity Experimentation in Ghost World

5. I didnt move to Bosnia : Critical Cultural Immersion in Save the Last Dance

6. Cheerleaders, Bullies, and Nerds: Intersections of White Stereotypes and Black Music inBring it On, Mean Creek, and Napoleon Dynamite

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7. Old World Ethnicity, Hybrid Identity, and New WolC­