youthsploitation

When college campuses burned in the late ’60s and early ’70s as demonstrations over the Vietnam War and civil rights combusted into chaos, Hollywood’s game plan was simple: Make a buck off it. Youth-protest movies, largely forgotten now, became a short-lived subgenre -- some call it "youthsploitation" -- luring the Saturday-night masses with such lurid taglines as, “If you’re thirty, you’re through” and, “If you crack a head hard enough, you’ll hatch a revolutionary.”

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Youthsploitation sold, and went on selling for decades, until film and TV took over as the primary entertainments, and until the rise of young-adult literature, when teenage rebels were written about in an altogether more sympathetic way.

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