Desire and Consent in Representations of Adolescent Sexuality with Adults

This book presents an innovative comparative view of how the issue of adolescent sexuality and consent is differently treated in various media.

Autorentext

Maureen Turim is Professor Emerita at the University of Florida

Diane Waldman is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Denver

Inhalt

1.Legal, Theoretical, and Ethical Issues in the Debates over Adolescent/Adult Sexuality: An Introduction to the Volume; Industry History and Practices; 2. **Willing Clay: Female Adolescence, Consent, and Stardom in Early Hollywood; 3. Age-Transgressive Relations Between Teens and Adults in 1970s Cinema; 4. Discursive Responses to an Underage Porn Star: The Traci Lords Scandal; Adaptation: Literary Sources and Filmic Specificity; 5. Lolita and The Lover: Pederosis and the Child; 6. Silencing Incest Survivors: The Erasure of Shame-Inducing Sexual Arousal in the Adaptations Precious and Bastard Out of Carolina; 7. Coming of Age in Post-Holocaust Hungary: Love and Healing in Those Who Remained; Comparative International Textual Analysis; 8. Hunger, Discipline, and Order: Queer Adolescent Desire in Mädchen in Uniform and Otra vueltra de tuerca; 9. The Search for a Happy Ending: Adolescent Sexuality in Indian Cinema from Balika Badhu to the Present; 10. Exploitation of Adolescent Girls by Adult Men in La niña santa and Madeinusa; 11. From the Beach to the Bach: Female Coming-of-Age Film in France and New Zealand Psychoanalytic Theory and its Discontents; 12. *Oedipus Rex at Eve's Bayou or the Little Black Girl Who Left Sigmund Freud in the Swamp; 13. Film Aesthetics, Fantasy, and the Expression of Adolescent Desire in Le Souffle au Coeur (Murmur of the Heart) and Call Me by Your Name*; Contemporary Television Series; 14. Criminalization of Teen Sexuality in Law & Order: SVU; 15. "Maybe if it's animated...": The Affordances and Limitations of Animated Adolescent Sexuality