"Age of Consent" on 8/6/2023 at 3pm ET / 1pm MT
Aug 1, 2023 5:06:13 GMT
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Post by Fading Fast on Aug 1, 2023 5:06:13 GMT
Coming of Age at College
This month's theme is coming of age at college and, in our last movie, at prep school.
Our schedule will be
8/6 "The Age of Consent" (1932)
8/13 "Spring Madness" (1938)
8/20 "These Glamour Girls" (1939)
8/27 "Tea and Sympathy" (1956)
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, sex, love, class, money, personal insecurities, generation gaps, filial responsibilities and in loco parentis all smashed together when young men and women headed off to college to come of age.
For many of these college students, it will be their first time away from home, just when their hormones are ramping their interest up, way up, in the opposite sex.
Each generation experiences coming of age amidst different norms and expectations, but these experiences usually include emotional challenges, sexual excitement, relationship disappointments and hard lessons, all amplified by youthful exuberance and passion.
"These Glamour Girls" and "Tea and Sympathy" will probably be this month's two favorite movies, but each of our four pictures offers an engaging and moving look at young men and women coming of age at school.
This Sunday, August 6th at 3pm ET / 1pm MT / 12pm PT, we will be watching and sharing our thoughts about the 1932 movie "The Age of Consent," starring Dorothy Wilson, Richard Cromwell and John Haliday
This one's production quality is a bit clunky as pre-code Hollywood was in the midst of learning how to do "talkies." Still, it's a neat window into the real college experience before the enforcement of The Motion Picture Production Code would limit what was allowed on screen.
In "The Age of Consent," we see two college kids in love. But owing to the norms of that era, these kids are being emotionally battered - and battering each other - as they try not to have sex, despite their bodies and passions urging them differently.
Today, we give kids going off to college speeches about being safe and then pray for the best. But in the early 1930s, there could be a huge price to pay for not abiding society's abstinence norms as we'll see in this short, but forward-looking tale of lust and love at college.
Link to the movie: "Age of Consent"
This month's theme is coming of age at college and, in our last movie, at prep school.
Our schedule will be
8/6 "The Age of Consent" (1932)
8/13 "Spring Madness" (1938)
8/20 "These Glamour Girls" (1939)
8/27 "Tea and Sympathy" (1956)
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, sex, love, class, money, personal insecurities, generation gaps, filial responsibilities and in loco parentis all smashed together when young men and women headed off to college to come of age.
For many of these college students, it will be their first time away from home, just when their hormones are ramping their interest up, way up, in the opposite sex.
Each generation experiences coming of age amidst different norms and expectations, but these experiences usually include emotional challenges, sexual excitement, relationship disappointments and hard lessons, all amplified by youthful exuberance and passion.
"These Glamour Girls" and "Tea and Sympathy" will probably be this month's two favorite movies, but each of our four pictures offers an engaging and moving look at young men and women coming of age at school.
This Sunday, August 6th at 3pm ET / 1pm MT / 12pm PT, we will be watching and sharing our thoughts about the 1932 movie "The Age of Consent," starring Dorothy Wilson, Richard Cromwell and John Haliday
This one's production quality is a bit clunky as pre-code Hollywood was in the midst of learning how to do "talkies." Still, it's a neat window into the real college experience before the enforcement of The Motion Picture Production Code would limit what was allowed on screen.
In "The Age of Consent," we see two college kids in love. But owing to the norms of that era, these kids are being emotionally battered - and battering each other - as they try not to have sex, despite their bodies and passions urging them differently.
Today, we give kids going off to college speeches about being safe and then pray for the best. But in the early 1930s, there could be a huge price to pay for not abiding society's abstinence norms as we'll see in this short, but forward-looking tale of lust and love at college.
Link to the movie: "Age of Consent"
