Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Youth Culture Shock 1
6. Part I: Rebellion and Resistance
7. Chapter 1. American Juvenile Delinquency Movies and the European Censors: The Cross-Cultural Reception and Censorship of The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, and Rebel Without a Cause 9
8. Chapter 2. The Imported Rebellion: Criminal Guys and Consumerist Girls in Postwar Germany and Austria 27
9. Chapter 3. Rebels with a Cause: Children versus the Military Industrial Complex 37
10. Part II: Politics and Style
11. Chapter 4. Chinese ‘‘Youth Problem’’ Films in the 1980s: The Apolitics of Rebellion 59
12. Chapter 5. The Age of Transition: Angels and Blockers in Recent Eastern and Central European Films 71
13. Chapter 6. The Sound of the South Bronx: Youth Culture, Genre, and Performance in Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style 87
14. Part III: Youth and Inner-National Conflict
15. Chapter 7. Out of Depth: The Politics of Disaffected Youth and Contemporary Latin American Cinema 109
16. Chapter 8. Birds That Cannot Fly: Childhood and Youth in City of God 131
17. Chapter 9. Portraying Muslim Youth in Egypt and India: ‘‘Worship None but Allah and Be Dutiful and Good to Parents’’ 144
18. chapter 10. Projecting a Bridge for Youth: Islamic ‘‘Enlightenment’’ versus Westernization in Turkish Cinema 157
19. Part IV: Narrating Gender and Difference
20. Chapter 11. Narrating the Feminine Nation: The Coming-of-Age Girl in Contemporary New Zealand Cinema 175
21. Chapter 12. Gender, Race, Feminism, and the International Girl Hero: The Unremarkable U.S. Popular Press Reception of Bend It Like Beckham and Whale Rider 189
22. Chapter 13. Pachyderm’s Progress 207
23. Chapter 14. Boys Will Be Men: Teen Masculinities in Recent Spanish Cinema 222
24. Part V: Coming-of-age Queer
25. Chapter 15. Girls Looking at Girls Looking for Girls: The Visual Pleasures and Social Empowerment of Queer Teen Romance Flicks 241
26. Chapter 16. Youth, Sexuality, and the Nation: Beautiful Thing and Show Me Love 256
27. Chapter 17. Different from the Other(s): German Youth and the Threat of Homosexual Seduction 271
28. Appendix A: Filmography of Global Youth Films by Nation 287
29. Appendix B: Filmography of Global Youth Films by Theme 306
30. Bibliography 313
31. Contributors 331
32. Index 337