| ACKOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第11-24页 |
| ·Youth and Subculture | 第11-13页 |
| ·A Brief Review of the Two Films | 第13-16页 |
| ·Thesis Statement and Research Questions | 第16-17页 |
| ·Methodology and Structure | 第17-24页 |
| CHAPTER TWO YOUTH'S CONSTRUCTION OF SELF | 第24-47页 |
| ·Lifestyle as Resistance | 第24-27页 |
| ·Power and Youth | 第27-34页 |
| ·School and Family:Teaching as a Form of Control | 第28-31页 |
| ·Police as a Protector and a Punisher | 第31-32页 |
| ·Commodity Society as an Invisible Power | 第32-34页 |
| ·Construction of Self through Style | 第34-47页 |
| ·Construction of Self through Creative Consumption of Music | 第35-40页 |
| ·Construction of Self through Group Lifestyle | 第40-47页 |
| CHAPTER THREE GIRL'S PURSUIT OF SELF | 第47-67页 |
| ·Female Identity in Transformation | 第48-50页 |
| ·Girls in American Graffiti:the Performative Self | 第50-58页 |
| ·Performing as Objects of Boys | 第51-53页 |
| ·Performing as Husband Hunters | 第53-55页 |
| ·Performing as Passive Consumers | 第55-58页 |
| ·Girls in Havoc:Agency in Constructing Self | 第58-67页 |
| ·Agency in Subverting Male Gaze | 第58-60页 |
| ·Agency in Subverting Social Demands | 第60-62页 |
| ·Agency in Dancing | 第62-67页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR FILMS AS ARTICULATION | 第67-91页 |
| ·Film Language and Articulation | 第67-72页 |
| ·The Discursive Representation of Youth as a Social Problem | 第72-78页 |
| ·The Start of Research on Youth in Representation | 第73-75页 |
| ·The Stereotypical Image of Youth Represented in Films | 第75-78页 |
| ·The Articulation for Youth:Loss and Search | 第78-91页 |
| ·Lost in the Adult World | 第80-82页 |
| ·Search on the Road | 第82-91页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第91-94页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第94-96页 |
