{"product_id":"freshman-1","title":"Freshman","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore the advent of the teenager in the 1940s and the teenpic in the 1950s, \u003ci\u003eThe Freshman \u003c\/i\u003e(Taylor and Newmeyer, 1925) represented 1920s college youth culture as an exclusive world of leisure to a mass audience. Starring popular slapstick comedian Harold Lloyd, \u003ci\u003eThe Freshman \u003c\/i\u003ewas a hit with audiences for its parody of contemporary conceptions of university life as an orgy of proms and football games, becoming the highest grossing comedy feature of the silent era. This book examines \u003ci\u003eThe Freshman \u003c\/i\u003efrom a number of perspectives, with a focus on the social, economic, and political context that led to the rise of campus culture as a distinct subculture and popular mass culture in 1920s America; Lloyd’s use of slapstick to represent an embodied, youthful middle-class masculinity; and the film’s self-reflexive exploration of the conflict between individuality and conformity as an early entry in the youth film genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238774624600,"sku":"9781138046399","price":78.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138046399.jpg?v=1779174013","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/freshman-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}