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<BODY bgcolor="#ffffff"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"> <h1>Monster at the Soda Shop: Teenagers and Fifties Horror Films</h1> <font size="2"><p>article by Cyndy Hendershot</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p>During the '50s, the American film industry became interested in the dangerous aspects of the teenage criminal, producing such serious dramatic films as <i>The Wild One</i> (1953) and <i>Rebel Without a Cause</i> (1955). Yet, another genre, which was equipped to deal with the horror of the new teen culture, also took advantage of the hot topic of the teenager. Fifties horror films such as <i>The Giant Gila Monster</i> (1959), <i>The Blob</i> (1958), <i>I Was a Teenage</i> <i>Werewolf</i> (1957), and <i>Monster on the Campus</i> (1958) used horror metaphors to explore a wide variety of issues related to the emergence of teen culture in Fifties America. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the full article</a></font> </font> </body>