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About Timothy Shary
- Timothy Shary (born August 17, 1967) is an American film scholar, and a leading authority on the representation of youth in movies.
- He has been a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Clark University, and the University of Oklahoma.
- He is the author of Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema (2002) and Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen (2005) and the co-editor with Alexandra Seibel of Youth Culture in Global Cinema (2007).
- He edited Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema (2013) and in 2014 published a new edition of Generation Multiplex with the subtitle The Image of Youth in American Cinema Since 1980.
- In 2016, Shary co-edited a collection on filmmaker Amy Heckerling with Frances Smith, and co-authored Fade to Gray: Aging in American Cinema with Nancy McVittie.
- He most recently wrote a book-length study of Richard Linklater's 2014 classic Boyhood in 2017. Shary's primary research has focused on the representational politics of age and gender, and has been published in many anthologies.
- His essays and reviews have also appeared in journals such as Men and Masculinities, Film Quarterly, Sight & Sound, Journal of Film and Video, Film Criticism, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Wide Angle, and The Journal of Popular Culture.
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