Download PDF by Jeffery P Dennis: Queering Teen Culture: All-American Boys and Same-Sex Desire

Why did Fonzie loiter around with all these highschool boys?

Is the overpowering boy-meets-girl content material of renowned teenager videos, song, books, and television only a conceal for an undercurrent of same-sex hope? From the Nineteen Fifties to the current, pop culture has concerned teenage boys falling for, longing over, dreaming approximately, making a song to, and struggling with over, teenage ladies. yet Queering teenager tradition analyzes greater than 2 hundred video clips and television indicates to discover who Frankie Avalon’s personality was once fairly in love with in these seashore video clips and why Leif Garrett grew to become a young person idol within the Nineteen Seventies.

In best forty songs, youngster magazines, video clips, television cleaning soap operas and sitcoms, young children are outlined via their pubescent “discovery” of the other intercourse, universally and with no exception. Queering youngster tradition seems to be past the litany to determine while adults grew to become so insistent approximately teenage sexual desire—and why—and reveals proof of same-sex hope, romantic interactions, and identities that, in response to the dominant ideology, don't and can't exist. This provocative booklet examines the careers of male performers whose teenage roles made them recognized (including Ricky Nelson, Pat Boone, Fabian, and James Darren) and discusses examples of lesbian wish (including I Love Lucy and Laverne and Shirley).

Queering youngster tradition examines:

• Ozzie and Harriet, Father is aware Best, and Leave It to Beaver: have been Ricky, Bud, and Wally sufficiently straight?
• the juvenile antisocial motion pictures of the Fifties: Why weren’t the rebel-without-a-cause “bad boys” attracted to girls?
• horror, sci-fi, and zombies from outer area: “Body of a boy! brain of a monster! Soul of an unearthly thing!”
• teenager idols—pretty, androgynous, and female: No ask yourself they have been rumored to be “funny”
• seashore video clips: She desires to plan their marriage ceremony yet he desires to surf, sky-dive and pass drag racing with the guys
• Biker-hippies boys of the overdue Sixties: “I comprehend your scene—don’t imagine I don’t!”
• the Fifties nostalgia of the Nineteen Seventies: Why does Fonzie spend all his time with highschool boys?
• youngster gore: What makes the psycho-killer angry?
• and masses extra, together with Gidget, the Brat Pack, blood brother dramas, nerds and “operators,” Saved by means of the Bell, the true World, and the very good shrinking teen

Queering teenager tradition is an important learn for lecturers operating in cultural and homosexual reviews, and for an individual else with an curiosity in renowned culture.