This book explores the depiction of suicide in American youth films made between 1900 to 2019. Anchored in sociology, it is a multidisciplinary study that investigates the causes and consequences of suicide and uncovers the sociocultural context of the development of youth, film, and suicide.
Cinematic portrayals generally privilege external explanations of suicide over internal or psychological ones, offering limited, simplistic, often unbalanced depictions of the phenomenon. This book offers young audiences a much-needed proactive approach - a media literacy strategy to apply while watching these films.
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