This book investigates the representational politics of youth cinema. It cuts up linear cinematic narratives to develop a hop-scotched history of youth, Generation X and youth culture to reveal the archetypes and ideologies that punctuate the cinematic llandscape, creating a dialogue between the chapters that crosses over text and time.
Leaping between decades through time travel in cinema, the book argues that the nostalgic past and projections for the future evoke the preoccupations and anxieties o