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By: lindsay

lindsay — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:49:58 +0000

I was completely unaware of that. Now, being all contrary like i normally am, i’m trying to think of possible exceptions. An interesting contrast just came to mind: if movies were rated the same way as books, there would be no small amount of PG-13 and R-rated movies that would carry a G or PG rating, because their primary characters are children or young adults. Maybe if books were rated more like movies, we’d have more kids trying to sneak “R-rated” books out of the library – the temptation of forbidden fruit (even if it’s not all that naughty, it just happens to be about adults in later-life experiences). Labeling it as adult indicates that it is not grounded in their experience. A kid reading a book or watching a movie that they know is marketed towards adults is partly learning about adulthood.

And then i remember that Mr Sparklepants hasn’t been a teenager for almost a century, and it gets that much creepier. And Bella (at least in the movie, which i’ve seen – opposed to the book, which i refuse to read) makes decisions like a woman in her early to mid 20s. It’s the 90210 factor: a show for teenagers, about teenagers, but the teenagers in question are being played by actors in their 20s.

Compare her with the girls in Gingersnaps (a really good movie, if you haven’t already seen it), who are actually portrayed as realistic teenagers. It’s a werewolf movie that’s not really about werewolves.

By: Zoe Winters

Zoe Winters — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:47:13 +0000

Hey Lindsay! Awesome post. I love this! One comment about why Twilight is classed as young adult and not adult romance. a book for children, young adults, or adults is most often classed by the age of the characters involved. There are a few exceptions like if the age of the character is completely out of sync with the ability of a reader that age or a little older or younger to handle the content.

Harry Potter is classed as children’s fiction because he started out 11 in the series. If the series had started around book 6 or 7, then it would have been shelved as Young Adult. (HP is interesting in that now it straddles all the age barriers which is probably what made it so huge. You had kids, adults, teenagers, everyone was reading and identifying with it.)

Twilight is YA because the characters in it are in high school.

Technically speaking Catcher in the Rye is YA also.