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Hollywood High – A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies
Bruce Handy
Simon & Schuster, $61.99
Bruce Handy is a gifted writer, well-equipped to draw subtexts to the surface. Here he is on The Hunger Games : “When you create a futuristic dystopia organised around a televised blood sport in which teenage gladiators are forced to fight to the death, you have either wittingly or unwittingly created a pretty nifty metaphor for high school – the battlefields of The Breakfast Club and Mean Girls made literal.”
And on Twilight’s sexual politics, building on Bitch magazine’s description of it as “abstinence porn”: “The books and the films … c
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