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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wasted Youth

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