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Monthly Archives: September 2013

  • September 29, 2013

    How To Be a Mid-Century British Teen

    BY Lucas Habte

    In the years that followed the birth of the “teenager” in 1945, British and American adults had no choice but to come to terms with the cultural and economic power of this new group.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • September 28, 2013

    Donyale Luna, First Black Supermodel

    BY Lucas Habte

    Much of the conversation surrounding New York Fashion Week has rightfully criticized the fashion industry’s continued refusal to hire non-white models, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a long history of black supermodels rising (if briefly) to the top of the fashion world. 

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • September 26, 2013

    Orson Welles, Most Precocious Teen Ever

    BY Lucas Habte

    Orson Welles made his first short film, Hearts of Age when he was just 19 years old.

    FROM:Archive Fever14903Tube Time

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  • September 20, 2013

    New Blood — Emerging British Photographers

    BY Claire Healy

    Editors Note: This is the first in a series of posts on London teen culture, past and present, to celebrate our UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival Oct 10-13.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • September 19, 2013

    20th Anniversary of Dazed and Confused

    BY Lucas Habte

    Richard Linklater’s seminal high school comedy, Dazed and Confused, turns 20 on September 24th!

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • September 12, 2013

    Throwback Thursday: BEAUTY

    BY Lucas Habte

    Miss Teen America started in the 1980s, but teen beauty pageants have been around for much, much longer than that.

    FROM:Throwback Thursday

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  • September 10, 2013

    Drowning in Unemployment!

    BY Lucas Habte

    This effective, inadvertently Buñuel-y 1979 ad for the Scottish Youth Opportunities Programme dramatizes the effects of youth unemployment in Scotland.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • September 6, 2013

    LA Teen Clubs, 1983

    BY Lucas Habte

    Adult anxiety about teen recklessness has always been in style.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • September 5, 2013

    Matt Wolf on BBC’s Talking Movies

    BY Lucas Habte

    Earlier this week, BBC World’s Tom Brook profiled Teenage director Matt Wolf for his show Talking Movies.

    FROM:Teenage Film

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  • September 4, 2013

    Remembering Macaulay

    BY Lucas Habte

    Remember Macaulay Culkin? Not the Macaulay of the “WE FORGOT KEVIN!!!” 

    FROM:Archive Fever

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