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Welcome to Childhood, Identity, and Coming of Age in Film! This exhibition was created by students in Dr. Mattie Burkert's spring 2017 Studies in Film course at Utah State University. Here they viewed a variety of films from different time periods, genres, and cultures through the lens of childhood and the experience of growing up. A number of topics arose from these films for discussion, including trauma, popularity, class differences, feminism, racism, mental health, etc. This collection examines how the topics in these films affected the characters as they struggled from childhood into adulthood.
2017
Stand By Me (1986), McCoy Allen
Almost Famous (2000), Maddie Asbill
Spirited Away (2001), Sofia Baxter
The Tree of Life (2011), Aubri Brevard
Juno (2007), Logan Clark
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Zachary Forsyth
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987), Natalie Harker
Mean Girls (2004), Hensley Hogan
The Virgin Suicides (1999), Erica Kirk
Dead Poets Society (1989), Faith Lord
The Outsiders (1983), JR Macriss
True Grit (2010), Makena McMullin
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Melissa McMurray
Finding Forrester (2000), Jason Nelson
Mama (2013), Juliann Ottosen
Inside Out (2015), Jenna Ream
Pariah (2011), Brock Wilson