The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture

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Summary: Clueless?
Review: While this book was very interesting, in a sense, there wasn't enough about actual teen films. The youth culture bit was detailed and very involved, but as for the relation of this to teen films, there was only a few chapters which were really helpful. As I'm presently doing a university dissertation (10,000 wd. thesis) on youth culture and teen films, and this is one of the few books written on the topic, I of course found it useful. Though many of the ideas helped me through my work, at the same timee, I kind of finished using the book wanting more. Perhaps this is because it appears so out of date being over a decade old and as a result many of the new films entering the genre have been missed. Despite this, at the end of the day, it was useful, just not as fun as it could have been.