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- 2014
- Not Rated
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 18 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 18 m
Summary Teenagers didn't always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.
Written By: Matt Wolf, Jon Savage
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 18 m
- 2014
- Not Rated
- Oscilloscope
- 1 h 18 m
Teenage
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Summary Teenagers didn't always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.
Written By: Matt Wolf, Jon Savage
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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25% Mixed
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6% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
64
69% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
25% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
This documentary is not a dry, academic history of youth culture, but rather a vibrant political statement that shows the powerful force of teenagers and their ability to foment social, cultural, and political change.
A haunting, hypnotic collage of archive footage and period recreations charting the pre-history of the teenager.
The resulting film is a rich mix of movements and cultural phenomena that occurred not only in the United States, but several European countries.
Teenage is an art film – an engrossing one at that – so it isn’t required to respect Queensberry rules vis-à-vis documentaries.
Wolf — who wrote Teenage with Jon Savage, author of “Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 1875-1945” — deftly weaves together various media in a way that breathes its own youthful, stream-of-conscious life into the documentary genre.
Like adolescence itself, Teenage is educational, scattered, and over much too quickly.
Regrettably, it’s terrible poetry: a roughly chronological jumble of archival footage, unconvincing period reenactments, gauzy voice-overs, and half-baked ideas that makes one yearn for the stolid dullness of a History Channel documentary.
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Production Company
Cinereach
Release Date Mar 14, 2014
Duration 1 h 18 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website
http://www.teenagefilm.com/
Awards
London Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
• 1 Nomination
