Author Michelle Meek discusses her new book “Consent Culture and Teen Films” and warns us that “we’re still at the stage where rape culture and consent culture are co-existing.”
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images, Universal Pictures, Twentieth Century Pictures, and United Artists ReleasingConsent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Moviesback in 2014, she quickly realized that she might have to wait for culture and society to catch up before it could be published.
But as we moved into a “consent culture era,” as Meek describes it, she continued to think about how films had contributed to the problem and how they could also help to improve it. The result of her findings is, which was published by Indiana University Press in April. In the book, Meek chronicles the history of teen sexuality in modern movies, looking at how they now take consent into account while also exposing the flaws that are still rampant in the teen genre.
“These were beloved films for teenagers, and they were seen by a lot of teenagers,” says Meek. “It’s really hard to make a movie, but I feel like filmmakers have a responsibility to think about what they’re putting out there. Plenty of scholars argue that these movies weren’t made as educational films for how teens should behave. I agree that the idea isn’t to show the ideal situation. But there’s a balance and responsibility so people don’t see this as some kind of model of behavior.
Meek blames a lack of imagination in Hollywood for the genre’s inability to fully move beyond these misogynistic tropes. For instance, she says that some contemporary teen movies have merely replaced teen boys with teen girls in sexual “aggressor” roles—which does nothing to fix things.
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