We are pleased to publish it here.- -Matt Zoller Seitz“The Breakfast Club”, John Hughes’ seminal classic of. Bender (. Advertisement. Judd Nelson). places Claire’s (Molly Ringwald) diamond earring, a synecdoche for her life of.

Simple Minds’ anthem of New Wave angst blares, imploring “Don’t. Like Proust’s madeleines, “Don’t You Forget About. Me” will forever conjure up the image of high school- ness, despite the fact. Shermer High was nothing like the high school I attended. I was, like all children that age. My older brother, himself a. But “The. Breakfast Club”’s teenagers were clear as day—their identities communicated.

Shermer High School to the lunches they eat (Sushi? Ipod The Snowman (2017) 2010 here. Really. Claire?) to their reasons for getting a detention (Allison . I examined the starkly displayed identities—the. I. wondered where I fit. Thirty years ago, there was no DVR, no. Netflix, no pirated movies to watch online. The TV was the soundtrack to our.

All right, geeks! Time for more BAHFest videos. This is one of my favorite talks ever, by Dr. James Propp. This is from our most recent BAHFest at MIT! The following is a transcript and video of a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 5, 2015. The Breakfast Club (1985) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

In the 1. 98. 0s, me and. TV was ambient. When friends came over. MTV. during the commercials, hoping for a Madonna video, then back to whatever it. When Breakfast. Club was on, we always knew all the lines. Advertisement. Thirty years ago, Principal Vernon. Paul Gleason) asked his five teenage charges “who do you think you are?” as a. In the essay that bookends the diegesis, Brian, the Brain.

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Anthony Michael Hall), balks at the question: “We think you're crazy to make. The answer, though, is. You are white.” I could only see this in hindsight though. Ph. D in critical media studies and lots and lots of. Millennials are constantly told they are post- racial, post- gender, and.

I know most of them are too smart to believe the fairytale the media. In fact, today’s youth are far more adept than.

Generation X or the Boomers or anyone else who came before us, in recognizing. One side effect of being told. It’s a hard thing, teaching students of. Indeed, whenever I teach. I loved passionately in my youth—.

It’s not that I don’t let students know when I truly love a. I gush about . My undeveloped. I formed post- college, when I began to study the cinema as a. So I overcompensate for the love object. I try to point out.

I am sure they. will find “The Breakfast Club” racist, close- minded, and unsatisfying. They. will surely shit on my youth. They are rife with. As one African- American female student said “I’ve seen. The first time I watched I understood it. I do today. I know they have a good life, but there are. I should point out here that the. Cult Horror Movies The Florida Project (2017).

They do not blindly accept ideological. For example, a white male student explained in a blog post “because. The Breakfast Club” is white, Hughes is able to create a. Chicago free from all racial prejudice and. America both. in the 1.

Without this racial element, Hughes can quite safely. Claire and Bender, respectively) within 2 hours by presenting. Yes, my students were primed to talk. The previous week we had watched . I wanted them to. John Hughes’ films.

I read them John Hughes’ own. I'd. feel extremely self- conscious writing about something I don't know.

He doesn’t need to write. He’s writing about high school students and high school students. But my students today seem to take Hughes at his word. They were surprisingly. I was, despite. my deep- rooted childhood attachments to the film. One student, an African- American woman, who watched the film for the first time in my class, told us. I know what a life of a .

They notice its sexism, its casual. It. is an aspect of the text, something to be analyzed.

This is their oppositional. Thirty years later I’m still waiting to.

Molly Ringwald, she of the perfectly cuffed sleeves and lightly. Thirty years later, when I see myself, I see a 3.

They are 2. 0 years my junior, a gap I so often find. I. wow them with tales of the days when television “went off the air” at. I don’t. Sometimes, we all get to love a text together. From AAK: Thank you to the amazing. Teenpics and American Youth Culture” course (fall 2.

East Carolina University who helped me think through these ideas. And. a special thanks to Nichole Currie, Chris Allman, and Sedonia Scott, whose.