its target audience so poorly, why has it continued to be influential and successful? I argue that The Craft ’s subversion of teen film tropes allows it to explore girls’ desire for understanding and companionship rather than what is known as
Back in Time Yet of His Time
Marty McFly as a 1980s Teenage Boy Role Model
Daniel Smith-Rowsey
hear the phrase 1980s teen film, we tend to think of John Hughes productions like Sixteen Candles (1984) and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), and images like Tom Cruise lip-synching “Old Time Rock ‘n’ Roll” in his underwear (in Risky Business
Claudia Mitchell
“ The Craft ’s relevance to girls arises from its subversion of teen film tropes” in its exploration of “girls’ fear of isolation.” Bernice Loh, in “Beyond the Discourse of Sexualization: An Inquiry into the Adultification of Tween Girls’ Dressing in
The Rumble of Nostalgia
Francis Ford Coppola’s Vision of Boyhood
Molly Lewis
troubling; Jon Lewis views Rumble Fish as evidence of the teen film’s increasing “penchant for nostalgia” (1992: 151) in a broader critique of postmodernism. Indeed, Rumble Fish ’s black-and-white photography, its sometimes excessive use of smoke and
Introduction
Cinemas of Boyhood Part II
Timothy Shary
cinema. Molly Lewis takes a somewhat auteuristic approach in her examination of Francis Ford Coppola’s two teen films of 1983, both based on novels by S.E. Hinton— The Outsiders and Rumble Fish —finding significance in the director’s own boyhood