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NOTES TO CHAPTERS 4 AND 5

25. Kronke, David, “Crit-O-Matic; TV Reviews,” Daily News of Los Angeles,
Sept. 22, 2004, Valley Edition, p. U5.
26. Hinson, Hal, “TV’s Damaged Detectives Are Sherlock’s Children,” New York
Times, Oct. 13, 2002, Section 2, p. 27.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Tierney, John, “The Doofus Dad,” New York Times, June 18, 2005, p. A13.
31. Marin, Rick, “Father Eats Best,” New York Times, Sept. 26, 2004, Section
9, p. 2.
32. Ibid.
33. Elliott, Stuart, “The Fall TV Season’s New Offerings Tend Toward Escapist
Brain Candy. And Some Candy Is Not Dandy,” New York Times, May 24, 2004, p.
C8.
34. Ibid.
35. Exceptions include David Considine, The Cinema of Adolescence (Jefferson,
NC: McFarland, 1985).
36. A final category of films excluded from consideration in this essay consists
of retrospective treatments of the young. Some of these “nostalgia” films meet
the genre criteria we have described, e.g., The Last Picture Show (1971) or Dirty
Dancing (1987). Others, e.g., Grease (1978), fall closer to the teen exploitation
category.
37. See Mills, C. Wright, White Collar (New York: Oxford University Press,
1956); Riesman, David, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American
Character (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001); Whyte, William H., Jr.,
The Organization Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1956); Goodman,
Paul, Growing Up Absurd (New York: Vintage, 1962); Friedenberg, Edgar, Dignity
of Youth and Other Atavisms (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1965).
38. See O’Neill, William L., American High: The Years of Confidence, 1945–60
(New York: Free Press, 1989).
39. Considine, The Cinema of Adolescence, pp. 181–82.
40. Ibid., p. 182.
41. On the white collar world of the 1950s, see Mills, White Collar.
42. See Roszak, Theodore, The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the
Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1995).
43. See Lasch, Christopher, Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of
Diminishing Expectations (New York: W.W. Norton; rev. ed., May 1991).
Chapter 5

1. de Moraes, Lisa, “TNT Tosses Gay-Bashing Spectacle Out of the Ring,”
Washington Post, Oct. 12, 1999, p. C7.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Hyde-Clarke, Nathalie, “But It’s Not Real: South African Youth’s Percep-
tions of Reality TV,” in Young People, Soap Operas and Reality TV, ed. Cecilia Von

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