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Issue 28: Teenagers

September 2015

Letter from the Editor

Chad Perman·
Issue 28: Teenagers
We’re diving headfirst back into that teenage world, looking at how movies have tried to capture adolescence on screen over the past few decades Read More

Living In The Sprawl: Coming-of-Age in the Suburban Void

Charles Bramesco·
Issue 28: Teenagers
Superbad is a film that exists outside of place, unstuck in America, nowhere and everywhere. Read More

Me in Pink

Courtney Duckworth·
Issue 28: Teenagers
If Pretty in Pink were the imagined fable of those high school days, the moral would perhaps be: Someday someone will appreciate you for who you are. Read More

Chaos, Order, and Death

Olivia Collette·
Issue 28: Teenagers
Heathers is not a movie about teenagers having teen problems. It’s the story of kids dealing with very adult problems that they’ve inherited from society. Read More

Girls Like Us

Elisabeth Geier·
Issue 28: Teenagers
The first time I watched My Mad Fat Diary, I felt understood in a way I never before had by a movie or television show. Read More

Time is a Flat Circle

Nate Fisher·
Issue 28: Teenagers
Where is the experience of teenage monotony and aimlessness not spoken but truly felt, and not just by hot people? Others may find it there, but I find it sewn into the very fabric of Elephant. Read More

You’re Not One of Those Moralistic Young People, Are You?

Letitia Trent·
Issue 28: Teenagers
Stealing Beauty presented all these lovely in-between places not as the devil’s snares, but as opportunities for growth, for experience. Read More

I’m Just a Stupid Kid

Christopher Fraser·
Issue 28: Teenagers
Charlie Bartlett, named for its protagonist, has nothing to do with my life, and yet it feels uncomfortably personal to watch again, seven years after I first saw it. Read More

This Is The Day Your Life Will Surely Change

A.J. Bradley·
Issue 28: Teenagers
Empire Records is not a movie about high school—it’s a fable about warding off the end of youth altogether. Read More

Wasted Youth

Arielle Greenberg·
Issue 28: Teenagers
A poem from Arielle Greenberg. Read More

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