Cann, Victoria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7858-4283
(2022)
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”: Reflections on learning about boyhood through Stand By Me.
Boyhood Studies, 16 (1/2).
pp. 194-197.
ISSN 2375-9240
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Abstract
This piece offers reflections on the 1986 movie Stand By Me, drawing on some of the main themes and contextualising them in relation to my own childhood as a girl growing up in the 1990s. I reflect on how in my rewatch of the movie I was struck by how the class positions of the boys echoed my own experiences of transition and liberation through education. I also reflect on the significance of seeing boys cry and be scared – feelings that the boys at my school were policed out of performing in public.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Part of "Editorial Board Reflections on Formative Books and Other Media" |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | boyhood,film,masculinity,representation,working-class,sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/gender_equality |
Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities |
Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2022 16:30 |
Last Modified: | 16 Jun 2023 00:38 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/89366 |
DOI: | 10.3167/bhs.2022.15010212 |
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