FMS 394: Lesson 3 CLEAN TEENS AND THE ENDLESS SUMMER

 How do “Clean Teen Idols” and their “Cleanpic” films intervene in teen film culture?  What can the rise of “Cleanpics” tell us about the evolving relationship between the media industries, particularly Hollywood, and teens in the late 1950s?  How do these “Cleanpics” and ther successors establish certain spaces and behaviors as emblematic of and analogous to adolescence and youthfulness? GUIDING QUESTIONS

 The Late 1950s and the Context of Clean:  Hollywood conservatism  The Production Code  The Cold War  Transmedia Exploitation  Tammy and The Bachelor, 1957 Tammy and The Bachelor THE RISE OF THE CLEANPIC Dir. Joseph Pevney, 1957

 Pat Boone and Bernardine (1957)  Cleanpics and class privilege  Focus on homosocial, male-dominated images of teens  Transmedia exploitation Transmedia exploitation CLEAN TEEN IDOLS

 Sandra Dee and Gidget (1959)  Shifting ideas about teen audiences  Gidget both challenges and shores up normative femininity  Instigates surfing craze CLEAN TEEN IDOLS

 Teen Culture and Surf Culture  Beach Exploitation Films Beach Exploitation Films  Surf Documentary Surf Documentary CLEAN TEENS AND THE ENDLESS SUMMER Dir. Bruce Brown, (1964/66); Dir. William Asher (1963)

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