High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies
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High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies: DAVID DENBY p. 709-714
1. What rhetorical strategies does Denby use in the first paragraph to create a picture of the female villain of teen movies?
Irony—
Hyperbole—
Metaphor —
Colloquialisms—
2. How does Denby’s description of the male villain in paragraph 2 differ from that of the female villain in the first paragraph? What does the difference suggest about how males and females are portrayed in film and other media?
3. How does the essay answer the rhetorical questions that begin paragraph 4?
4. The essay makes several appeals to ethos. Denby is a well-known film critic. How does he use the expertise of others—implicitly and explicitly—to support his argument?
5. What is Denby’s central argument? What are his secondary arguments? How does he bring them together?
6. In paragraph 10, Denby says the genre of teen movies might be called “Portrait of the Filmmaker as a Young Nerd,” an allusion to James Joyce’s novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. What is the effect of the allusion? Does the allusion strengthen the point Denby makes at the end of the paragraph—that “[a] critic of consumerism might even see a spark of revolt in these movies? But only a spark”? Or is the allusion irrelevant?
7. The “wound and the bow” (para. 11) refers to the theory that pain or unhappiness in an artist’s childhood is inextricably tied to strength and creativity later in the artist’s life. How does Denby tie that theory to teen movies?
8. In paragraph 13, Denby argues that the two teenage boys who killed classmates, teachers, and then themselves at Columbine High School did not learn the lesson of teen movies: “geeks rule.” How does he support this argument?
9. In the last two paragraphs, Denby discusses teen movies that go beyond the genre. How do these examples bolster his argument?
10. Who is the likely audience for this essay? How does Denby consider audience in his essay?
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